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Editorial: Health Inequalities and Social Justice

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The second in our series of the new Giants of the 21st Century to mark 70 years since Beveridge is on Health inequalities and Social Justice by Kenneth Howse.

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  1. Closing the gap in a generation: health equity through action on social determinants of health. World Health Organisation, Geneva 2008.

  2. For the UK see Fair society, healthy lives. Department of Health, London 2010.

  3. What does the empirical evidence tell us about the injustice of health inequalities? Deaton A. Discussion paper. http://www.princeton.edu/rpds/papers Accessed 15.01.12

  4. ibid.

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Howse, K. Editorial: Health Inequalities and Social Justice. Population Ageing 5, 1–5 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12062-012-9058-8

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