£3bn needed to ‘build back better health’ in UK is calling for a £3bn intervention fund to build back better health
in the UK as we come out of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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A
parliamentary report
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The report, called Levelling Up Health, has been produced by the All Party-Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Longevity after extensive consultation and recommends a new approach
We need to confront ideologues on both sides of the political divide Damian Green
Social inequality has led to 40,000 additional deaths
to improve the nation’s health, identifying five key elements mortality rates. Blackburn
in the UK to date if the
must be responsible for all
with Darwen, for example,
national COVID mortality
health matters and that the
huge health inequalities in
has had 345 per 100,000
rate had been as low as the
private sector has ‘no place
society in the UK, with 90
people die, five times more
least deprived places.
in health’, but also those
per cent of those who’ve
than South Cambridgeshire
died with COVID-19 having
with 68 per 100,000.
as part of a 10-year plan. The pandemic has exposed
Damian Green, chair of the
public health measures as an infringement of liberty.”
significant prior poor health.
Shockingly, the report
need to confront ideologues
The most deprived places
shows there would have
on both sides – those on the
been 40,000 fewer deaths
left who argue that the state
have had much higher
on the right who oppose
APPG on Longevity, said: “We
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E
uropeActive has joined the
of citizens at the heart
All Policies for a Healthy
of EU policymaking.
Europe (APHE) initiative,
APHE’s main two policy
as part of its strategy to
calls are for the European
engage with EU policymaking. Launched in 2018, APHE is an
Commission to establish an ‘EU Charter on Wellbeing’
initiative that brings together
and for it to create an
a diverse group of NGOs,
‘Observatory of Wellbeing’.
think tanks, associations, companies and individuals. Its mission is to position the health and wellbeing
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EuropeActive joins ‘All Policies for a Healthy Europe’
In a statement, EuropeActive said: “We look forward to working with the other knowledge partners of the APHE initiative to make sure that policy and decision makers in Brussels fully
We want to ensure decision makers recognise exercise as an essential part of disease prevention
recognise physical activity
EuropeActive
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promotion as an essential part of the EU’s disease prevention and health promotion policies.”
APHE wants wellbeing to be placed at heart of policy making
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