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Article: Social inequalities are global killers, WHO commission finds.(The GLOBE: Public health news from around the world)(Report)
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- The Nation's Health
- Article date:
- October 1, 2008
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Social inequities are killing people on a "grand scale," concluded a commission convened by the World Health Organization that found where people live greatly influences their lifespan and health.
A girl in the African country of Lesotho is likely to live 42 years less than a girl in Japan, according to "Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health Equity Through Action on the Social Determinants of Health," a report from WHO's Commission on the Social Determinants of Health. And while the risk of dying during childbirth is 1 in 17,000 for a Swedish woman, for a woman in Afghanistan it is 1 in 8. Inequalities are so profound that even a child born in a Glasgow, ...