Inequalities - a lost battle?

The King's Fund have a current Blog entitled Have we lost the battle to improve health inequalities? Gabriel Scally, Associate Fellow of the Institute for Public Policy Research has the opinion that more could and should have been done towards acheiving social health equality.  

                                                                                         The government's key aims to reduce social health inequality were listed in 'Fair Society Healthy Lives' and reviewed in (The Marmot Review Summary) 2002:

Give every child the best start in life.

Create fair employment and good work for all.

Ensure healthy standard of living for all.

Strengthen the role and impact of ill-health prevention.

Create and develop healthy and sustainable places and  communities.

Enable all children, young people & adults to maximise their  capabilities & have control of their lives.

On all counts, there still seems to be a long way to go to.

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