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Why Are Health Inequalities So Resistant To Change? Efforts to merely "target" help on the least advantaged is not the answer, the report continues, because health inequality follows a gradient. Professionals fare better than managers, managers better than skilled workers and so on down the line. Removing all the health disadvantage of the bottom fifth would remove just 40 percent of health inequality. CONCLUSION 8.6 What is clear in that equity in health depends on a high national standard of knowledge about self-care and the care of children and other dependants, and the pursuit of activities conducive to health, which themselves depend on such factors as high standards of home-keeping, good education and widely diffused physical and sporting activities. This suggests a coherent national programme of enormous scope and we can only hope to give illustrations of some of the most important parts of such a programme. They will include an expansion of...

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