Giving Compass' Take:

· Despite the UN's Global Goals to provide equal access to healthcare for all, Global Citizen reports on a new study by Public Health England showing that England's poorest residents will receive 19 fewer years of good health when compared to the richest.

· How can England expand access to healthcare for every resident, regardless of wealth? How can donors catalyze efforts to achieve universal healthcare? 

· Read about the UN's SDGs and the road to universal healthcare.

People living in England’s richest areas will get 19 more years of good health than those living in the country’s most deprived areas.

That massive social inequality is revealed in a new report, published Tuesday by Public Health England (PHE).

The Health Profile for England report is described as the most comprehensive picture of health in England today, and it paints a picture of privilege that just shouldn’t exist in 2018.

Life expectancy has generally increased in recent decades — and has now reached an average of 83.2 years for women and 79.6 years for men.

But life expectancy is “not uniform across England and inequalities exist,” according to the report.

“If neighbourhood areas within England are ranked from most to least deprived and then organised into 10 groups, life expectancy increases in each group as the level of deprivation decreases. In other words, there is a ‘social gradient’ in health,” it adds.

Read the full article about years of good health by Imogen Calderwood at Global Citizen.