Why?

Scientific research has shown that where you live determines both your life expectancy and your disability free life expectancy.

The findings from decades of research across several contrasting fields and disciplines, from around the world, all show that the whole of society is affected by health inequity.

The Marmot Review and the government White Paper, Healthy Lives, Healthy People, call for greater co-operation and working across disciplines to reduce health inequalities that appear along the social gradient.

As a member of the RICS, the guiding principles and foundations of the Institution are professionalism, unbiased advice and consumer protection.  The robust scientific evidence that links where you live with reduced life expectancy requires the attention of everyone in the built environment.

Our expertise is within the built environment and we combine this with evidence based research on the factors that collectively affect health and reduce life expectancy to help businesses and organisations deliver projects that improve public health.

 

Where you live and where you work determines your life expectancy, and your disability free life expectancy.

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“…I have spent my academic career emphasising the evidence that the key determinants of health lie outside the health care system.”

The world’s leading public health expert in the field of health inequality, Professor Sir Michael Marmot, 21 November 2011.

Policies that influence communities and housing have a dramtatic impact on population health and well-being.

It’s taken several decades to understand this, but we do now have a better grasp of the direct and indirect impact of our collective decisions on what goes into our built environment.

Help is available to you and your organisation to understand how to start tackling health inequalities, you just have to ask.