Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Invaluable information on health inequities : The Lancet

Invaluable information on health inequities : The Lancet: "It is hoped that the impact of these findings will help accelerate processes to improve the health situation of those most in need, not only by increasing the coverage of evidence-based interventions, but also by persuading politicians of the urgent need to combat social inequities, what Michael Marmot has called “the ‘causes of the causes’—the fundamental structures of social hierarchy and the socially determined conditions these create in which people grow, live, work, and age”."

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