UK - SICK SOCIETY
Britain is rapidly becoming a sick society
“Sixteen percent of the British labor force - one in six - report that they suffer from long-term health problems.
"This number has risen by just over a third since 2010, to more than 7 million … and it shows no sign of reversing, as it has in other European countries …
“Since 1750, life expectancy and productivity have advanced almost in lock-step … Economic progress led to better health, and better health powered economic progress. Today, the advance has slowed to a crawl: The economy is stagnating, and life expectancy in the UK (81) has increased by just eight weeks since 2011.
“The future doesn’t look any better. The biggest growth in long-term illness has been in the 16-24 age cohort ...
“Since 1750, life expectancy and productivity have advanced almost in lock-step … Economic progress led to better health, and better health powered economic progress. Today, the advance has slowed to a crawl: The economy is stagnating, and life expectancy in the UK (81) has increased by just eight weeks since 2011.
“The future doesn’t look any better. The biggest growth in long-term illness has been in the 16-24 age cohort ...
"Fully one in eight 16-24-year-olds claim that they are suffering from long-term health problems ... This is largely driven by mental health issues, though rising levels of obesity among the young also play a part …
“The problem of poor health is inseparable from the problem of poverty. Britain has a high level of social inequality compared with other rich countries (rich Britons can expect to live 15 years longer than poor Britons), a high level of regional inequality (some parts of the UK are poorer than Eastern Europe) and a high level of childhood poverty …
“Bad nutrition leads to heart problems, obesity and diabetes. Damp homes encourage breathing problems, particularly if they are infected with black mold, an epidemic in social housing. A dead-end economy encourages drug taking (Dundee, Scotland has the highest incidence of drug deaths in Europe) …
“Britain has one of the lowest ratios of both doctors and hospital beds to patients in the OECD. Waiting lists have doubled since 2016, and hospitals are now carrying out 12% fewer operations than before the pandemic …”
https://archive.is/HdCkk
“The problem of poor health is inseparable from the problem of poverty. Britain has a high level of social inequality compared with other rich countries (rich Britons can expect to live 15 years longer than poor Britons), a high level of regional inequality (some parts of the UK are poorer than Eastern Europe) and a high level of childhood poverty …
“Bad nutrition leads to heart problems, obesity and diabetes. Damp homes encourage breathing problems, particularly if they are infected with black mold, an epidemic in social housing. A dead-end economy encourages drug taking (Dundee, Scotland has the highest incidence of drug deaths in Europe) …
“Britain has one of the lowest ratios of both doctors and hospital beds to patients in the OECD. Waiting lists have doubled since 2016, and hospitals are now carrying out 12% fewer operations than before the pandemic …”
https://archive.is/HdCkk
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