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

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.

I'm not an Orthodox Jew, I don't practise much in the way of Jewish religion, but I am very Jewish and I think it probably does indeed influence what I do.

For every dollar spent on early child development you save $7 over the life course because children with better early child development are less likely to end up delinquent, involved in crime, unemployed and so on.

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

In Sweden for example people with PhDs have lower mortality than those with a masters degree. And people with a masters degree or a professional degree are not poor.