Michael Marmot

Michael Gideon Marmot ( born January 26, 1945) is a British Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London. He is also director of the UCL International Institute for Society and Health, Chairman of the established in 2005 by the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health, the Department of Health Scientific Reference Group, and the WCRF / AICR Food, Nutrition and the Prevention of Cancer report.

Life

Marmot has an MB BS from the University of Sydney and an MPH and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.

Marmot led a research group to the socially determined health inequalities of opportunities over the last 30 years. He is the principal investigator of the Whitehall Study, in which he analyzed the reasons for the negative relationship between social status and morbidity / mortality. He also leads the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA ) and a number of international initiatives on the social determinants of health. Marmot was six years a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution and Vizepräsedent of the Academia Europaea.

Work

Marmot's long-standing research interest is the causality between social environment and health. He studied biological and psychosocial influences on particular cardiovascular diseases. He pointed to a change in disease rates based on Japanese immigrants in the U.S. and other immigrants in the UK. Attention he set up the explanation of the high rates of cardiovascular disease among Indian immigrants, which could be attributed to the metabolic syndrome. Similar biological mechanisms play in the explanation of the social gradient in selfsame disease in the UK. In the study of public service employee was found that the risk of illness was negatively correlated with social status. Responsible is the degree of control over their own work, which is associated with psychosocial stress. These relationships could also explain the increase of cardiovascular diseases and decline in life expectancy in Russia and the countries of the former Eastern Bloc after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Marmot processed these findings in the book published in 2004 Status Syndrome.

Honors and Awards

  • Honorary member of the British Academy
  • William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research (2008)
  • Harveian Oration (2006)
  • Longevity Prize (2005)
  • Balzan Prize ( 2004)
  • Knighthood (2000)

Selected Publications

  • Achieving health equity: from root causes to fair outcomes. Geneva: Commission on Social Determinants of Health, 2007.
  • Social determinants of health inequalities. Lancet (2005), Vol 365, pp. 1099-1104.
  • Status Syndrome - how your social standing Directly Affects your health and life expectancy. London: Bloomsbury & Henry Holt New York, 2004.
  • Health inequalities among British civil servants; the Whitehall II study ( Davey Smith G, Stansfeld, S., Patel, C., North, F., Head, J., White, I., Brunner, E., Feeney, A. ). Lancet, 1991, Vol 337, pp. 1387-1393.
  • Inequalities in death - specific Explanations of a general pattern? ( with Shipley M., Rose, G. ) Lancet, 1984, pp. 1003-6
  • The changing social class distribution of heart disease ( with Adelstein, A., Robinson, N., Rose, G. ). BMJ, 1978, Vol 2, pp. 1109-1112
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