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Kingston Cambridge Road estates life expectancy 5.7 years lower than affluent neighbours
8:30am Wednesday 24th June 2009
Residents on the Cambridge Road estates are suffering an inequality in health compared with more affluent areas in Kingston, according to a social innovation study.
As a result, Health Launchpad at the Young Foundation is working with NHS Kingston on an initiative exploring future healthy living initiatives for the estate.
Bold graphics and graffiti murals were put up around the estate on Monday in a social rejuvenation exercise.
A Young Foundation spokesman said: “These pockets have evolved in part through the lack of social housing resulting in deprived communities being squeezed into bounded zones, resulting in stark disparities in life expectancy.”
On the Cambridge Road estate there is a 5.7 year difference in life expectancy compared with men living in the more affluent Tudor ward.
Other markers, including premature death, mental health and self-reported measures of health, all paint a picture of marked health inequality in the borough.
Almost a quarter of the Cambridge Road estate are children aged under 16 and according to this year’s Child Well-being Index, they are in the top 2 per cent for deprivation, based on material well-being, and the top 3 per cent most deprived in regards to housing need.
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vintage55, says...
11:10pm Sun 28 Jun 09
Capitalism doesn't feed off inequality. On the contrary, it actually provides a safety net whereby the lazy, feckless and non-productive are rewarded for making zero contribution to society.
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Fred1, Surbiton says...
12:31am Thu 25 Jun 09
The news isn't that the inequality exists. Everyone knows that; indeed, that's the reason why the affluent neighbours who have a choice about where they would like to stay prefer not to live in the Cambridge Estate.
No, I think the news is that someone thinks it's worth trying to do something about it. Good luck to them I say, but, I can't see that the situation is likely to change this side of the revolution - or the apocalypse - whichever happens first. "The poor will always be with you, but you won't always have me."
You see, capitalism feeds off of inequality. Rich people need to be able to exploit poor people - that is, a person only remains rich as long as they hold assets that enable them to exploit poor people. Once a rich person loses their ability to exploit poor people, then that rich person ceases to be rich. That's the way it is.