General improvements in health/decline in mortality do not affect all classes equally. As mortality rates fall, social inequalities commonly widen.

We have to put reduction of health inequalities at the centre of our public health strategy and that will require action on the social determinants of health.

Throwing young people on the scrap heap is a public health emergency.

Low income is related to poorer housing, poorer diet, fewer social amenities, worse working conditions. (...) After adjustment for age, sex, race, smoking, alcohol consumption, sleep habits, leisure-time physical activity, chest pain, diabetes, or cancer, there was still an increase risk of 1.6 for those with inadequate incomes.

General improvements in health/decline in mortality do not affect all classes equally. As mortality rates fall, social inequalities commonly widen.

Once you get off the ladder you'll never get back on.

Our elected politicians do what they judge is the right thing to do. And if we disagree then I'll show them the evidence of why I disagree.