Racism is exacerbating London’s health inequalities, report concludes

Structural racism is harming the health and wellbeing of ethnic minority communities in London and contributing to “avoidable and unfair inequalities” between ethnic groups, researchers have concluded.

A review by University College London’s Institute of Health Equity has called on community leaders, institutions, and employers to “prevent racism from continuing unchecked” and to improve people’s lives. The health inequalities expert Michael Marmot, director of the institute and co-chair of the review’s advisory board, said, “Inequalities in the social determinants of health are storing up health problems for the future.

“It is a profound injustice if the conditions for good health are unequally distributed, depending on ethnicity—especially so where that unequal distribution results from the evils of racism.”

The report, Structural …