Marmot Review

The Marmot Review had four tasks:

• to identify evidence most relevant to underpinning policy to meet challenges posed by ‘health inequalities';
• To show how this evidence could be translated into practice;
• Advise on objectives and measures that could build on current PSA targets in infant mortality and life expectancy;
• Publish a report of the Review's work to contribute to a post 2010 health inequalities strategy.

The Review tries to show a way forward to reduce disparity in the quality of peoples' lives, identify deficits and determine what needs to be done, and explores changes of emphasis that are needed.