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A fresh look at Health

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Levelling Inequalities

Why Health Inequalities are important

"Reducing health inequalities is a matter of fairness and social justice. In England, the many people who are currently dying prematurely each year as a result of health inequalities would otherwise have enjoyed, in total between 1.3 and 2 million extra years of life."

Fair society, healthy lives (The Marmot Review): Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England post-2010

INEQUALITIES

Background information