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// Inequities are killing people on a "grand scale" reports WHO's Commission
"(The) toxic combination of bad policies, economics, and politics is, in large measure responsible for the fact that a majority of people in the world do not enjoy the good health that is biologically possible"
"Social injustice is killing people on a grand scale."
INEQUITIES WITHIN COUNTRIES
Health inequities – unfair, unjust and avoidable causes of ill health – have long been measured between countries but the Commission documents "health gradients" within countries as well.
WEALTH IS NOT NECESSARILY A DETERMINANT
Economic growth is raising incomes in many countries but increasing national wealth alone does not necessarily increase national health. Without equitable distribution of benefits, national growth can even exacerbate inequities.
RECOMMENDATIONS
Based on this compelling evidence, the Commission makes three overarching recommendations to tackle the "corrosive effects of inequality of life chances":
* Improve daily living conditions, including the circumstances in which people are born, grow, live, work and age.
* Tackle the inequitable distribution of power, money and resources – the structural drivers of those conditions – globally, nationally and locally.
* Measure and understand the problem and assess the impact of action.
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