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By Christine Jeavans
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Healthcare in the UK has vastly improved since Victorian times, yet the geography of coronavirus deaths closely follows the pattern of poor health in the 19th Century.
A succession of studies has found a link between Covid-19 and poverty, with the latest describing a jaw-dropping fall in life expectancy in Greater Manchester due to the pandemic.
That pattern of deeply entrenched deprivation and ill-health stretches back at least 170 years, according to the chief medical officer for England. If you had a map of Covid s biggest effects now and a map of child deaths in 1850, they look remarkably similar, Prof Chris Whitty told an NHS conference in June.
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Researchers from Cambridge’s Department of Geography and Year 8 students in Wales have worked together to produce a series of learning resources based on census data, showing how the country has changed over time.
The materials, including worksheets and a series of podcasts, are freely available for teachers to incorporate into their lessons.
Year 8 students from Radyr Comprehensive School and Pontarddulais Comprehensive School in Cardiff worked with Dr Alice Reid and colleagues from Cambridge, Leicester and Edinburgh Universities, to co-produce a learning resource about exploring the census in the past and present. They explored the Populations Past and Data Shine websites to discover facts about their local area and compared them with other parts of England and Wales.