Introduction
Coventry has been a Marmot city since 2013. This updated and refreshed framework recognises the impact of the Covid pandemic, the cost of living crisis, and the potential widening of health inequalities for our residents. Some of our residents’ experience inequalities in employment, income, education, face homelessness, high energy costs, and discrimination, live in poverty, poor housing, and poor health, making life challenging. As a result, they may live shorter and unhealthier lives which is unfair and avoidable.
This strategic monitoring tool describes the city-wide programmes of work aligned to the Marmot principles delivered by partner organisations, including voluntary organisations and statutory agencies across Coventry to tackle health inequalities. The monitoring tool aims to support the work of the Partnership by identifying where we can make a change and a difference to residents of Coventry across the social gradient. The Marmot Partnerships' strength is harnessing its collective voice of partners to steer and influence the wider system into prioritising health inequalities in strategic plans, programmes of work, interventions and how we can support our residents and businesses by building back fairer.
We are grateful for the support and expertise of Professor Sir Michael Marmot and his team at the Institute of Health Equity, University College London, enabling us to measure and better understand how the work described in this monitoring tool is helping us to tackle health inequalities in the city.
Acknowledgements
The Marmot Partnership would like to thank all partners from across Coventry services for their time, expertise and contributions providing evidence, data and information for this monitoring tool.
Contact us
- Alicia Phillips; Programme Manager - Inequalities Alicia.Phillips@coventry.gov.uk
- Lisa Young; Programme Officer - Inequalities Lisa.Young@coventry.gov.uk