A Marmot Place recognises that health and health inequalities are mostly shaped by the social determinants of health (SDH): the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age, and takes action to improve health and reduce health inequalities. [...] The UCL Institute of Health Equity (IHE) works with places to reduce inequalities in health by: • Assessing the extent of inequalities in health and the social determinants of health locally, reviewing actions already happening and scoping the local context. [...] Based on the eight principles, Marmot Places develop and deliver interventions and policies to improve health equity; embed health equity approaches in local systems and take a long-term, whole-system approach to improving health equity. [...] Involving communities in the identification of the drivers of poor health and in the design and implementation of actions to reduce them. [...] Councillor Salma Arif, Execu;ve Member for Adult Social Care, Public Health and Ac;ve Lifestyles, Leeds City Council, said: “We are carrying out a wide-ranging strategic review of health outcomes and strategies in the City, with the aim of delivering system and policy change that will see equity and health embedded across all policies.
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