Austerity has killed at least 334,000 people so far

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Oh yeah sure, jumping ship too frequently is a red flag. Every three or four years with a genuine progression isn’t so bad though. Staff retention isn’t a huge focus for many firms - it should be.

Not jumping ship regularly is often treated as a red flag in academia.

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Oh yeah sure, jumping ship too frequently is a red flag. Every three or four years with a genuine progression isn’t so bad though. Staff retention isn’t a huge focus for many firms - it should be.

Not jumping ship regularly is often treated as a red flag in academia.

Not enough get up and go. It’s definitely a thing.

[Woodchopper]

From The Economist

Outside London, there is almost a perfect correlation between life expectancy in a local authority and its level of deprivation—as measured by a government index of a battery of economic and other factors . Our calculations also suggest that between 2001 and 2016 income and employment deprivation alone accounted for 83% of the variation between local authorities in life expectancy.

In 2020 Sir Michael Marmot, an epidemiologist, published a follow-up to an influential report from 2010 into health disparities across England. He found that, whereas in London life expectancy had improved across all income deciles, in the years between 2011 and 2017 life expectancy had declined for women living in the poorest decile of areas, and for the men living in the poorest parts of the north-east and Yorkshire. A poor English girl could on average expect to live 7.7 years less than a rich girl, and a boy 9.5 years less.

If working-age and poorer people are at the heart of a decade of British deaths, many forces will have been at play, some of them overlapping. But funding cuts, reduced public-health interventions and problems in the National Health Service (nhs) all are likely to have played a part.
For many the connection between slowing life expectancy and austerity is increasingly clear. “It’s all down to the weight of evidence,” argues David Walsh of the Glasgow Centre for Population Health. On this view, funding cuts in other European countries during the 2010s help explain some of their slowdowns, and Britain’s worse performance reflects the particular brand of austerity enacted by the coalition government that was in power from 2010 to 2015.

Reductions in government funding then tended to hit the most deprived areas hardest. During the 2010s, spending per person decreased by 16% in the richest councils, but by 31% in the poorest. Benefits were also cut. Our analysis of a detailed dataset of local government spending from 2009-19, compiled by the Institute of Fiscal Studies, a think-tank, shows that places with the largest relative declines in adult social-care spending and housing services were the ones that suffered the greatest headwinds to life expectancy.

The connection of austerity with life expectancy is controversial—correlation does not necessarily mean causation. But there is at least one specific way in which funding cuts are likely to have worsened health outcomes. Statistical boffins define preventable deaths as those which could have been avoided with public-health interventions such as improving health education or helping people to stop smoking, say, or manage their weight.
These interventions are not easy to get right but they can be very effective. A study looking at coronary heart-disease deaths in England and Wales between 1981 and 2000 found that this kind of primary prevention avoided four times as many deaths as secondary prevention did, and that the average person saved gained almost three times as many years of additional life (21 years compared with 7.5). Experts reckon that 40% of the burden on the nhs may be preventable through tackling the causes of avoidable chronic conditions. But in 2020 less than 7% of overall government health-care spending went on prevention, a third of that on covid testing and tracing.

Such services have been pruned in the last decade. Since 2013 public health in England has come under the purview of local authorities. The public-health grant, which is paid to councils by the Department of Health, was cut by 24% in real terms per person between 2015-16 and 2021-22; the government is yet to publish its allocation for 2023-24, making it hard to plan. Public-service agreements committing the previous Labour government to tough targets on life expectancy, among others, were discontinued in 2010. “From our heart-disease point of view, I think we were doing public-health intervention better 20 years ago,” says Dr Stewart.

There is no substitute for stopping people from falling ill in the first place. But once a disease is present, secondary prevention with treatments such as statins and cardiac rehabilitation can do much to reduce mortality rates. That is where shortfalls in medical care are liable to show up. Britain had higher rates of treatable mortality (deaths which could have been avoided with timely and effective health-care interventions) than the oecd median country long before the waiting lists started to spiral. This is partly because the poorest tend to present to health services later, when their conditions are more advanced.

https://www.economist.com/interactive/b ... n-expected

[Fishnut]

The number of people admitted to hospital for malnutrition and nutritional deficiencies has trebled in the last decade, according to NHS figures published in the Guardian,

More than 800,000 patients were admitted to hospital with malnutrition and nutritional deficiencies last year, a threefold increase on 10 years ago, according to NHS figures that have prompted warnings about the devastating health impact of food insecurity.
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The Guardian analysed rates of 25 conditions linked to poor nutrition, including vitamin and mineral deficiencies, scurvy, rickets and malnutrition. Over the past decade, there was a steep increase across nearly all of the conditions, based on primary and secondary diagnosis in hospital patients in England and Wales.
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The trend also tracks a stark increase in food insecurity over the same period, with 5.9% of adults reporting not eating for a whole day because they could not afford or access food, 15% of adults reporting skipping meals and 21% of households with children experiencing food insecurity, according to a recent Food Foundation survey.

The Guardian as also reported on the impact of this on children,

“We’ve got children with bowed legs because they’re so deficient in vitamins. We’ve had children so malnourished they’ve had heart murmurs,” said [Jade] Hunter, a headteacher at West Earlham infant and nursery school in Norwich.
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The most alarming impact has been the effect on pupils’ physical health, with many school absences thought to be linked to sickness caused by poor living conditions and diet.

“We do get a lot of bad chests because they’re in damp homes that are maybe mouldy, and we get a lot of sickness and diarrhoea because the quality of the food they’re eating isn’t great,” said Hunter. “I’ve had one child who came in so malnourished and ill I had to carry them to the doctor myself.”

It's the f.cking 21st century and we have kids in this country who have rickets. RICKETS. It's f.cking disgraceful.

[Woodchopper]

The number of people admitted to hospital for malnutrition and nutritional deficiencies has trebled in the last decade, according to NHS figures published in the Guardian,

More than 800,000 patients were admitted to hospital with malnutrition and nutritional deficiencies last year, a threefold increase on 10 years ago, according to NHS figures that have prompted warnings about the devastating health impact of food insecurity.
...
The Guardian analysed rates of 25 conditions linked to poor nutrition, including vitamin and mineral deficiencies, scurvy, rickets and malnutrition. Over the past decade, there was a steep increase across nearly all of the conditions, based on primary and secondary diagnosis in hospital patients in England and Wales.
...
The trend also tracks a stark increase in food insecurity over the same period, with 5.9% of adults reporting not eating for a whole day because they could not afford or access food, 15% of adults reporting skipping meals and 21% of households with children experiencing food insecurity, according to a recent Food Foundation survey.

The Guardian as also reported on the impact of this on children,

“We’ve got children with bowed legs because they’re so deficient in vitamins. We’ve had children so malnourished they’ve had heart murmurs,” said [Jade] Hunter, a headteacher at West Earlham infant and nursery school in Norwich.
...
The most alarming impact has been the effect on pupils’ physical health, with many school absences thought to be linked to sickness caused by poor living conditions and diet.

“We do get a lot of bad chests because they’re in damp homes that are maybe mouldy, and we get a lot of sickness and diarrhoea because the quality of the food they’re eating isn’t great,” said Hunter. “I’ve had one child who came in so malnourished and ill I had to carry them to the doctor myself.”

It's the f.cking 21st century and we have kids in this country who have rickets. RICKETS. It's f.cking disgraceful.

Malnutrition among children's is especially concerning. We have discussed previously how the great majority of hospital cases of malnutrition are side effects of disease or medications (eg Alzheimer's or Cancer) which suppress appetite or the ability to eat. But presumably children aren't going to have those problems. Most of them will be suffering from malnutrition because they can't get enough to eat. Which is disgraceful.

[EACLucifer]

Malnutrition among children's is especially concerning. We have discussed previously how the great majority of hospital cases of malnutrition are side effects of disease or medications (eg Alzheimer's or Cancer) which suppress appetite or the ability to eat. But presumably children aren't going to have those problems. Most of them will be suffering from malnutrition because they can't get enough to eat. Which is disgraceful.

Annoyingly I now can't find it, but I saw recently a series of graphs showing what the Tories had done to public spending etc, but one of the grimmer graphs showed the height of five year old boys over time. Suffice to say it has declined over the last decade.

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Annoyingly I now can't find it, but I saw recently a series of graphs showing what the Tories had done to public spending etc, but one of the grimmer graphs showed the height of five year old boys over time. Suffice to say it has declined over the last decade.

Is this the study you were referring to, link it to ITV News item https://www.itv.com/news/2023-06-21/bri ... -in-europe?