Examples of strategies that are directly influenced by the Marmot Review.
Please note: Some of this work was not carried out by the Marmot Review Team and all links are external to this site.
- New Zealand Medical Assocation
Following a recent conference 'Health Equity and the Social Determinants of Health', at which Professor Sir Michael Marmot was the key-note speaker, the NZMA is taking a leadership role and bringing together representatives from across health, the government sector and wider community to discuss the way forward to reduce New Zealand’s unacceptable health inequities.
To read more, please click here.
Work from Yorkshire and the Humber that identifies information at a local level that might help partners - particularly partners in local government - to get a richer feel for our position, in relation to the six policy themes in Fair Society, Healthy Lives.
Taking an asset approach and using routinely available data, Yorkishire and the Humber have produced profiles for each upper tier local authority, containing a range of indicators on the wider determinants of health. Rather than using single authority-wide measures, wherever possible these show in-area difference - potentially of much greater use in shaping local strategies and plans - producing slope indices of inequality on a range of different measures.
To read the full report, please click here.
To view the appendices to the report, please click here.
In May 2010 a cross-sector Think Tank event was held in Wigan Borough to:
- discuss the key messages from the Marmot Review and how the findings might be applied in the current context.
- reflect on examples of good practice from elsewhere and how stakeholders might quickly learn to implement these locally.
- re-energise the commitment to understanding and tackling the causes of poor health locally.
The key themes and issues discussed at the Think Tank event formed the basis for the Marmot Task Group.
The Task Group is viewed as a 'conscience' for the new Health & Well-Being Board and has cross sector commitment to understand and tackle the causes of the poor health locally. It uses the 6 Marmot objectives to provide the strategic framework and has engaged with local business, particularly through the Food Sector.
The local Marmot Action Plan includes health and well-being challenges throughout life, as recommended in the new Public Health White Paper, Healthy Lives, Healthy People (DH, 2010) - start well, develop well, work well, age well.
Healthy, Fairer Waltham Forest health inequalities strategy.
- Central Australia Aboriginal Congress Inc.
The submission to the NT Child Protection Inquiry of the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress has used the Marmot Review to support its efforts to prevent child protection referrals in the first place.
To read the full submission, click here.
NHS Camden Director of Public Health Annual Report for the year 2009-10 is framed around Marmot review findings, Fair Society, Healthy lives. The report takes the reader on a journey through the natural life cycle of the local population highlighting the challenges we are currently addressing and quoting policy recommendations from the marmot review as ways of addressing these.
To read the full report, please click here.
Director of Public Health Annual Report for the year 2010-11 by the NHS in East Sussex focusing on inequalities in health for people in East Sussex, the factors that contribute to these differences, and the actions needed to reduce these inequalities.
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To read the executive summary click here.
- Sheffield Health Inequalities Action Plan
NHS Sheffield and Sheffield City Council have developed an action plan to tackle health inequalities.
To see the full document click here.
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- East of England Public Health and Social Care Directorate
Below are an impressive range of stategies, programmes and projects developed through partnership working with a range of organisations in the East of England. Next to each is the policy recommendation from the Marmot Review with which it is most closely aligned. Each one of these examples reflect practical ways in which the review can implemented. More information can be found on all of these initiatives by clicking the links.
Essex County Council Family Learning and Parenting Strategy (Recommendation A2) Click here for more information
- North West, Living Well Across Local Communities: Prioritising well being to reduce inequalities
Living Well, developed through a process of engagment and consultation and endorsed by all Directors of Public Health in the North West for local action, describes a way of working to remove entrenched inequalities. Living Well sets out a new approach, it calls on all those with leadership responsibility in public, private and in voluntary and social organisations to use their energy and experience to build on what they do well but be radical where improvement is needed. Living Well advocates the need to build on strengths, assets and resilience of individuals and communities to bring about change and the interventions which the evidence-base shows are effective.
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NHS Kensington & Chelsea have recently published their Health Inequalities Commissioning Framework to guide commissioning until 2015. It is heavily influenced by Marmot Review findings and is centred around three key messages: getting our own house in order, act as a champion and collect the evidence. They have started implementing the Framework through presentations and workshops with commissioners, third sector staff, and representatives from local councils.
Read the Kensington & Chelsea Health Inequalities Commissioning Framework here
"Tackling Health Inequalities in Sunderland: policy Review 2009/10" published by Sunderland City Council's Health and Well Being Scrutiny Board.
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- Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council: Equal life chances for all in a generationAccording to the July 2010 National Audit Office review, only "15-20% of inequalities in mortality rates can be directly influenced by health interventions which prevent or reduce the risk of ill health". This year Blackburn with Darwen used the Marmot Review framework and an Integrated Strategic Needs Assessment (ISNA) approach to analyse the 'causes of the causes' of the Borough's poor health outcomes and has reached similar conclusions.
To read a summary of and argument for the approach Blackburn with Darwen have taken, please click here.
To read the Blackburn with Darwen Summary of the Public Health Annual Report 2010 and Integrated Strategic Needs Assessment, "Equal life chances for all in a generation", please click here.