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The European Journal of Public Health 2006 16(4):339; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckl106
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

Editorials

Health inequalities—the need for explanation and intervention

Eero Lahelma

Correspondence: E-mail: eero.lahelma@helsinki.fi

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Health inequalities understood as systematic differences in health between socio-economic groups have turned out to be much more persistent and complex than previously thought. The sad thing is that over the past few decades these inequalities have rather widened than narrowed in most European countries.1 While the number of studies has steadily increased, all too little emphasis has . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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