This is a great account of the collapse of public health in the UK. Where they go, we tend to follow.
What needs to be laid alongside it is the reason public health funding has declined so dramatically: the tax cuts, the loopholes and sheer corruption.
Neoliberalism is literally killing us to make the super-rich even richer.
P.S. Don't give the Graun your money until they stop being TERFs. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/01/when-political-posturing-replaces-public-health-people-die-prematurely-westminster