Posts Tagged inequalities
Tackling inequalities
Posted by James Gubb in Health on 28/03/2008
The Guardian features two blogs on health inequalities that are, to be frank, almost completely non-descript. They do a good job at listing the damning evidence – that life expectancy for those in poverty has been falling further behind the national average over the past decade, that infant mortality 19 per cent higher for “routine and manual groups” than for the total population, and that this is worse than it was in 1997-99 when it was just 13 per cent – but offer no real assessment of the problem, let alone posit a solution.
