The health gap: the challenge of an unequal world

Relieving adult poverty, paying a living wage, reduction in fuel poverty, improving working conditions, improving neighbourhoods, and taking steps to reduce social isolation in elderly people can save lives.1 The health gradient to which these life course influences give rise is dramatic.

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Veröffentlicht in:The Lancet (British edition) Jg. 386; H. 10011; S. 2442 - 2444
1. Verfasser: Marmot, Michael
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: England Elsevier Ltd 12.12.2015
Elsevier Limited
Schlagworte:
Child development
Children
Children & youth
Cognitive ability
Developing countries
Education
Global Health - standards
Health care access
Health disparities
Health Status Disparities
Healthcare Disparities
Heritability
Humans
Income inequality
Injustice
Internal Medicine
LDCs
Life Expectancy
Life span
Mortality, Premature
Older people
Pollutants
Poverty
Public health
Social conditions
Social determinants of health
Social Determinants of Health - statistics & numerical data
Social factors
Social interactions
Socioeconomic Factors
Working conditions
United Kingdom > UK
United States > US
Europe
ISSN:0140-6736, 1474-547X, 1474-547X
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Zusammenfassung:Relieving adult poverty, paying a living wage, reduction in fuel poverty, improving working conditions, improving neighbourhoods, and taking steps to reduce social isolation in elderly people can save lives.1 The health gradient to which these life course influences give rise is dramatic.
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ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00150-6