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. 1996 Apr 20;312(7037):1026–1029. doi: 10.1136/bmj.312.7037.1026

All together now: why social deprivation matters to everyone.

G C Watt 1
PMCID: PMC2350848  PMID: 8616353

Abstract

Inequalities in health in the United Kingdom are widening as a result of economic policy. By focusing on specific diseases, health policy fails to address why less prosperous groups die earlier from most major categories of death. By concentrating on actions which can be taken by individuals and local communities health policy ignores actions which require the support and involvement of society as a whole. Clinicians see the consequences of health and economic policy in their everyday practice and could contribute more effectively to public debate.

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