Health inequalities
By John F. Ryan, Acting Director Public Health Directorate
Reducing inequalities in health between different socio-economic groups and between different parts of the EU is one of the burning issues facing the European Union today. For the last 4 years, the public health directorate in SANCO has been coordinating the implementation of the EU strategy to address health inequalities ‘Solidarity in Health’.
On 11th December 2013, the Commission published the EU-funded report “Health Inequalities in the EU”, produced by a consortium led by Sir Michael Marmot of University College, London. It summarises new evidence on health inequalities in the EU and ass
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