Jennie Popay: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- Professor of sociology and public health, Lancaster University
- Quoted on
- Health inequalities
- Press citations held
- 1
- Most recently quoted
- 8 Sept 2026
“the primary causes of inequalities in health, driving poorer health for poorer groups, are the material conditions in which people are born, live, work and grow old. It is growing inequalities in access to material resources, power and privilege, not irresponsible behaviours, which have created a 20-year gap in healthy life expectancy between the most and least advantaged groups in the UK.”
Where Jennie Popay has been quoted
- Inequalities in health are the result of where you’re born, live, worktheguardian.com · 8 Sept 2026
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