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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Tobi Thomas Health and inequalities correspondent

Structural racism leading to stark health inequalities in London, report shows

A line of London ambulances
The report’s author said it is an injustice if good health is ‘unequally distributed, depending on ethnicity’. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA

Structural racism is leading to stark health inequalities among people from some ethnic backgrounds in London, according to a review by one of the UK’s top public health experts.

More than half (52%) of black children and almost three-quarters (70%) of Bangladeshi and Pakistani children are growing up in relative poverty after housing costs in London, compared with a quarter (26%) of white children.

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