Improving the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age
Fair Society, Healthy Lives (the Marmot Review) laid out six areas in which action is required to create the social conditions needed to reduce avoidable and unfair inequalities in health including giving every child the best start in life; education and lifelong learning; employment and working conditions; and a social determinants approach to disease prevention.32 As health literacy is associated with the social determinants of health, efforts to improve health literacy which support action on the key social conditions are likely to have more impact.