Research today from Cancer Research UK suggests cancer death rates are 60% higher for people living in the most deprived areas of the UK compared with those in more affluent areas
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To be honest, Victoria, I could’ve explained that poor people have worse health outcomes than rich people.
But it’s good we’ve got the evidence; will it be acted on?
Poorer people will always have this. I blame it on vending machine healthcare, where you will get personalised care if you can pay for it, otherwise you get statistics based consideration.
Hopefully improvements in AI and scanning technology will boost early detection. But only if we hype it.
Probably due to processed food, smoking, alcohol, poor housing and other environmental factors. Fresh food has become unaffordable for many because of inflation and the cost of living.
Even among the jams cancer poverty is rawly real. We could love better by meeting the need; it’s not like we didn’t know it’s there. Life isn’t fair, but hope really ought to be accessible to all.
It’s more to do with the fact they don’t have time because they are usually working jobs that don’t let them take paid time-off to visit the doctor so they can’t afford to go
Yeah I brought this up at our GP - how to get through on the phone at 8am when your phone is in a locker since the start of your shift at 6. Amongst other barriers.
These statistics are unacceptable. To close the gap, we must tackle poverty, improve access to healthcare, and ensure nutritious food is available for all. No one should face worse health outcomes because of their income. It's time for action.
As long as Westminster remains London-centric & regards the North as some sort of backwards hinterland of savages this inequality will be perpetuate.
Move the Houses of Parliament to York (or better yet, convert Byker Wall 😁) and we'd see change.
I've just realised I made a massive leap there from "deprived areas" to "The whole of the North".... I should know better.
I'd still like to see the HoC and HoL situated more in the geographical centre of the UK (which I think is somewhere around York).
Who'd have thunk it, eh. People most likely to be working in the most dangerous jobs, working shifts, living in the worst housing, with the worst diet are the most likely to get cancer. Amazing.
It's hardly a stunning revelation. "Most deprived" is the giveaway here: poor health coverage and poverty are key.
A lack of available jobs (and thus income) encourages drinking, smoking and consumption of junk foods, which contribute not only to cancer, but dementia, diabetes, heart disease etc.
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But it’s good we’ve got the evidence; will it be acted on?
Who would have guessed? Our two main parties oscillate between tut tutting and tough love for the less well off.
Our elected representatives have home security, often rent 2nd homes and live in another world of relative financial security.
Hopefully improvements in AI and scanning technology will boost early detection. But only if we hype it.
Move the Houses of Parliament to York (or better yet, convert Byker Wall 😁) and we'd see change.
I'd still like to see the HoC and HoL situated more in the geographical centre of the UK (which I think is somewhere around York).
A lack of available jobs (and thus income) encourages drinking, smoking and consumption of junk foods, which contribute not only to cancer, but dementia, diabetes, heart disease etc.