Inequality and Health
Channel: Salvatore Babones
Date: 21/05/2017

Medicine may be a biological science but public health is a mostly social science -- and threats to public health are almost always in the end social problems, not scientific ones.

The larger the scale, the clearer it becomes that health problems are primarily social problems that are strongly shaped by inequalities in society at large.

People don’t die from inequality itself; they suffer from the ills of unequal societies.

The worst of these ills may be the simple harshness of life in places where people don’t care for other people.