Michael Marmot

... social environment in childhood affects achieved adult height, life chances, and ultimately mortality rates in adult life. (...) ... social circumstances…

— Michael Marmot

Saying we can't afford to invest in early child development means we're storing up bigger costs in the future.

— Michael Marmot

Low income is related to poorer housing, poorer diet, fewer social amenities, worse working conditions. (...) After adjustment for age, sex, race,…

— Michael Marmot

The environment can actually affect gene expression.

— Michael Marmot

The lower you are in the hierarchy the worse your health, the higher you are, the better your health.

— Michael Marmot

It's not just that people with no education have worse health. People with a bit of education at somewhat better, with a…

— Michael Marmot

In Sweden for example people with PhDs have lower mortality than those with a masters degree. And people with a masters degree…

— Michael Marmot

For every dollar spent on early child development you save $7 over the life course because children with better early child development…

— Michael Marmot

If the economists are arguing as to whether we need to cut or stimulate, because they're completely opposite policies, and they can't…

— Michael Marmot

I came from a warm Jewish family.

— Michael Marmot

The differences between Indigenous and not Indigenous Australians can be easily attributed not to differences in their genes but to differences in…

— Michael Marmot

It's highly likely that what you're doing is indeed influenced by your Jewish background.

— Michael Marmot

If people want me to go round and talk to governments and others then I feel that responsibility which is why I…

— Michael Marmot

I love Australia. I mean it's, how can you not? It's an incredibly beautiful country. I like the people, I like the…

— Michael Marmot

The brain is an important gateway by which the social environment impacts on people's health through the mind.

— Michael Marmot

We have to put reduction of health inequalities at the centre of our public health strategy and that will require action on…

— Michael Marmot

Throwing young people on the scrap heap is a public health emergency.

— Michael Marmot

Angus Deaton has written a wonderful book, The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality. . . . Deaton's book…

— Michael Marmot

Once you get off the ladder you'll never get back on.

— Michael Marmot

I've pursued a lifetime in the research on the social determinants of health and more recently been packaging not just my research…

— Michael Marmot

Health and health inequalities tell us a great deal about the good or bad effects of social policies.

— Michael Marmot

There's good evidence that if people are disempowered, if they have little control over their lives, if they're socially isolated or unable…

— Michael Marmot

Your position in the hierarchy influences your behaviour.

— Michael Marmot

I was born in North London, migrated to Australia when I was four. So when I first came to Australia people saw…

— Michael Marmot

General improvements in health/decline in mortality do not affect all classes equally. As mortality rates fall, social inequalities commonly widen.

— Michael Marmot