Positive experiences early in life are closely associated with better performance at school, better social and emotional development, improved work outcomes, higher income and better lifelong health, including longer life expectancy.
NICE and the Marmot Review
The Marmot review set out to identify effective evidence-based strategies for reducing health inequalities.
The final report identified 6 policy objectives for action.
We’ve mapped our guidance to each of the 6 policy objectives outlined in the Marmot review:
The Marmot Review described the graded relationship between socioeconomic position and educational outcomes and the associations with health and other outcomes in later life.
The Marmot Review concluded that being in good employment is usually protective of health while unemployment, particularly long term unemployment, contributes significantly to poor health.
The report concluded that having enough money to lead a healthy life is central to health and that poverty and low living standards are powerful determinants of ill health and health inequity.
Create and develop healthy and sustainable places and communities
The Marmot Review assessed the importance of communities in shaping physical and mental health and wellbeing and described how inequalities among communities are related to inequalities in health.
The Marmot Review summarised the importance the impact of addressing inequalities in health in later life and investing in the early years to preventing ill health later in life.