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Why care?
— how status affects our health and longevity | | Author(s) | Michael Marmot |
| Journal title | Health & the Future, vol 1, issue 2, Autumn 2004 |
| Publisher | International Longevity Centre, Autumn 2004 |
| Pages | pp 18-23 |
| Source | http://www.healthandfuture.org |
| Keywords | Health [elderly] ; Longevity ; Social class ; Social policy. |
| Annotation | In the early 1990s, the British government was, for the first time, developing a health policy, setting goals for the nation's health, and the means to achieve these goals. The author had been asked to write the background paper on prevention of coronary disease, in which he summarised the strong and consistent evidence on the importance of giving up smoking, improving diet, increasing physical activity, and lowering obesity, blood pressure and cholesterol. This article is an excerpt from his book, "Status syndrome" (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2004). His view is that we should care about inequalities in health where they are the result of unfairness that could be put right. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-041217201 A |
| Classmark | CC: BGA: T: TM2 * |
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