Reducing the gap

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 21 Jul 2009 English Publisher:BMJJournal:BMJ, volume 339, pages b2928-b2928 (issn: 0959-8138, eissn: 1468-5833,

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Authors: Evan L, Lloyd;

doi: 10.1136/bmj.b2928

pmid: 19622566

Reducing the gap

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Abstract

Hawkes emphasises the widening in health inequalities with the increasing inequality in absolute income.1 People in the most deprived areas live in the poorest quality housing with poor insulation. Thus heating the house, even inadequately, takes a disproportionate percentage of an already low income. Poor insulation also leads to the development of mould, which …

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Scotland, Socioeconomic Factors, Health Status, Housing, Income, Humans

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