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Youth unemployment in the UK and throughout Europe is a "public health time bomb waiting to explode" the World Health Organisation has warned.
In the wake of the economic downturn, the UK also lags behind many of its European neighbours for key health indicators such as death of children under 5 and women's life expectancy, according to the findings of a major two-year review led by the public health expert Professor Sir Michael Marmot.
The Czech Republic, Slovenia and Greece all had lower child mortality rates than the UK and life expectancy for women in Spain, Italy and Cyprus exceeded UK rates.
Prof Marmot said that the UK was "failing too many of our children, women and young people on a grand scale."
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...lth-time-bomb-waiting-to-explode-8913672.html
In the wake of the economic downturn, the UK also lags behind many of its European neighbours for key health indicators such as death of children under 5 and women's life expectancy, according to the findings of a major two-year review led by the public health expert Professor Sir Michael Marmot.
The Czech Republic, Slovenia and Greece all had lower child mortality rates than the UK and life expectancy for women in Spain, Italy and Cyprus exceeded UK rates.
Prof Marmot said that the UK was "failing too many of our children, women and young people on a grand scale."
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...lth-time-bomb-waiting-to-explode-8913672.html