Quotes by Michael Marmot

Michael Marmot

… social environment in childhood affects achieved adult height, life chances, and ultimately mortality rates in adult life. (…) … social circumstances acting in childhood do have a persisting effect on adult disease rates, in addition to influences acting in adulthood.

Acting

Childhood

Health

Angus Deaton has written a wonderful book, The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality. . . . Deaton’s book is a magisterial overview of health, income, and wealth from the industrial revolution to the present, taking in countries poor and rich. Not just jargon-free but equation-free, the book is written with a beautifully lucid style. . . . [P]owerfully argued and convincing.

Book

Country

Style

Australia is a very healthy country which goes along with the fact that it’s very high on the Human Development Index, high wealth, good levels of education. So Australia ranks right up there, second or third on the Human Development Index. And Indigenous Australians, if you treated them as if they were a separate country, would rank probably about 100th or below 100.

Australia

Country

Healthy

Empowerment of individuals and communities is absolutely central. Getting the community involved in organising their own destiny has got to be a key part of it.

Community

Destiny

Keys

For every dollar spent on early child development you save $7 over the life course because children with better early child development are less likely to end up delinquent, involved in crime, unemployed and so on.

Children

Development

Dollars

General improvements in health/decline in mortality do not affect all classes equally. As mortality rates fall, social inequalities commonly widen.

Class

Fall

Health

Health and health inequalities tell us a great deal about the good or bad effects of social policies.

Deals

Inequality

Social

Health inequalities and the social determinants of health are not a footnote to the determinants of health. They are the main issue.

Inequality

Issues

Social

Height is probably 95 per cent genetic.

Cents

Height

I came from a warm Jewish family.

Jewish Family

Warm

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Academic Life

Acting

Action

Age

Australia

Backgrounds

Beautiful

Behaviour

Bits

Book

Boys

Brain

Cancer

Cents

Childhood

Children

Class

Community

Cost

Country

Cutting

Deals

Degrees

Destiny

Development

Differences

Doe

Dollars

Emergencies

Environment

Evidence

Example

Expression

Fall

Genes

Get Back

Government

Health

Healthy

Height

Hierarchy

Higher

Impact

Inequality

Influence

Issues

Jewish Family

Judging

Keys

Ladders

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Quotes by Michael Marmot

Michael Marmot

… social environment in childhood affects achieved adult height, life chances, and ultimately mortality rates in adult life. (…) … social circumstances acting in childhood do have a persisting effect on adult disease rates, in addition to influences acting in adulthood.

Empowerment of individuals and communities is absolutely central. Getting the community involved in organising their own destiny has got to be a key part of it.

For every dollar spent on early child development you save $7 over the life course because children with better early child development are less likely to end up delinquent, involved in crime, unemployed and so on.

General improvements in health/decline in mortality do not affect all classes equally. As mortality rates fall, social inequalities commonly widen.

Health and health inequalities tell us a great deal about the good or bad effects of social policies.

Health inequalities and the social determinants of health are not a footnote to the determinants of health. They are the main issue.

Height is probably 95 per cent genetic.

I came from a warm Jewish family.

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