| Comment | > So, why can we not have as sustained, targeted and combined an effort to tackle the root causes of poverty in our city too? Maybe one day we could provide the blueprint for accurately tackling that problem, too. It doesn't seem too unreasonable a request, given the net benefit to our city that it would result in.
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I think we honestly don't understand them well enough. The whole point of 'The Glasgow Effect' is that each of the things which are known contributors to earlier mortality - crap diet, binge drinking, poor exercise etc - don't individually add up to the poor health Glasgow has. There's something else, or some synergy to it.
I was reading analysis today actually, about how a disproportionate amount of Glasgow's increased deprivation vs. Edinburgh, comes from its frequency of areas in the top 10% of deprivation. And I know from working in NHS Addictions (specifically alcohol), that those are some seriously Wild West parts of town, which will be difficult to amend. |
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