The Marmot Review: implications for Spatial Planning.
The Marmot Review looks at the differences in health and well-being between social groups and describes how the social gradient on health inequalities is reflected in the social gradient on educational attainment, employment, income, quality of neighbourhood and so on.To mark one year since the publication of 'Fair Society Healthy Lives', the Marmot Review Team and the London Health Observatory produced baseline figures for some key indicators of the social determinants of health, health outcomes and social inequality that correspond, as closely as is currently possible, to the indicators proposed in Fair Society, Healthy Lives.Therefor a negative view can be described when a person is free from illness, disease, mental distress or anything which may be a symptom of not having good health. The holistic view of health sees the person as a whole instead of just directing at one area and therefore combines physical, social.
Marmot’s independent review, Fair society, healthy lives (The Marmot Team 2010) commissioned by the last Labour government and broadly accepted by the coalition, has been very influential in reinforcing that recognition. Fair society, healthy lives itself ran to more than 200 pages. Behind it was a.The United Kingdom’s long tradition of research on health inequalities. The UK is a high-income society, where greater prosperity and better overall health have been successfully attained without narrowing health inequalities, it can therefore be taken as an example for other societies that manifest similar trends in inequalities (Graham, 2009).
Education and literacy is another example of determinants of health. Education provides knowledge and increases individual’s opportunity to succeed. It gives people the freedom to have choices and opportunities that help them prosper.
