Poor Health and Inactivity Are Deepening Divisions in UK, Research Shows
- IPPR warns of ‘profound’ fiscal threat unless action is taken
- Ill-health is trapping ‘blackspots’ in economic deprivation
Illness is linked to low productivity, high poverty and persistent unemployment.
Photographer: Hollie Adams/BloombergEscalating levels of illness and health-related economic inactivity are worsening inequality in the UK and pose a “profound fiscal threat,” according to new research.
Work by the cross-party IPPR Commission on Health and Prosperity found that one in every four working-age Britons who neither have nor want a job live in just 50 local authorities.
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Poor Health and Inactivity Are Deepening Divisions in UK, Research Shows