26: Is ill health driving economic inactivity, and what can be done about it? – with Sarah O’Connor and Professor James Banks
The Health Foundation podcast
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Long run trends show a steady increase in long-term illness reported in the working-age population of about 0.5 per cent a year. Since the pandemic fewer working-age people are in work, at 600,000 fewer, that's the size of the city of Manchester taken out of the economy. At the other end of life younger people entering work are reporting markedly more ill health due to depression and anxiety. More young men in particular are economically inactive. So can we carry on like this if our economy is to recover? Or is it now time for us to get serious about these trends? And how?
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