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Public health priorities for 2020: five minutes with . . . Peter English

BMJ 2020; 368 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m31 (Published 06 January 2020) Cite this as: BMJ 2020;368:m31
  1. Gareth Iacobucci
  1. The BMJ

The chair of the BMA’s public health medicine committee urges the new government to prioritise tackling health inequalities and reverse cuts to local services

“There is a brilliant recent paper1 from a team including Michael Marmot emphasising yet again how much of avoidable mortality is down to inequalities. That’s so well established that nobody could really claim we need more research to prove it. In the UK we see continuing deterioration in the wider determinants of health. Knife crime has come to the political agenda but there are …

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