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Discuss the view that health inequalities can be explained by lifestyle choices made by different social groups. During the last century the general consensus in the western world has regarded medical advancement as the main reason for improvements in society's health. This media fuelled conception has led the public to believe that we are able to 'control' the human body and can predict mortality with healthy choices adopted from scientific research which in turn improve your lifespan. However in 1980, the ground-breaking Black report introduced evidence that showed large discrepancies between the levels of health amongst different groups. This highlighted socioeconomic patterns such as class, ethnicity, geography and gender which highlighted the differences amongst social groups in morbidity and mortality. This evident disparity within the lower classes is clear, still the difficulties continue when we need to attribute these; the two main arguments out of four from the report, rest on...

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