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Inequality continues to kill on a 'grand scale'
World Health Organisation warns that 'current rates of improvement are insufficient'
Protesters on Whitehall in London, as Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves delivers her spring statement to MPs in the House of Commons, London, March 26, 2025
INEQUALITY continues to kill people on a “grand scale” across England and the world, experts have warned, with poor housing and a lack of education and jobs affecting their health.
A new report from the World Health Organisation (WHO) revealed today that targets designed to help tackle global health inequalities within a generation will not be met.
The warning comes 16 years after WHO’s 2008 commission on the social determinants of health laid out a roadmap to reduce health gaps caused by socioeconomic inequalities.
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