From: The Health Equity Network (HEN) by way of PAHO Equidad list
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Minimum Incomes for Healthy Living (MIHL): next thrust in UK social policy?

  Policy & Politics    1 October 2004, vol. 32, no. 4,   pp. 441-454(14)

 J.N. Morris; C. Deeming, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

 Abstract:
http://www.ingenta.com/isis/searching/Expand/ingenta?pub=infobike://tpp/pap/2004/00000032/00000004/art00002


Research worldwide is establishing basic needs for personal health and
well-being. Official acceptance of this consensual evidence into policy
tends to be slow, partial and unsystematic, resulting in avoidable health
deficits, waste of human potential and costs to society. Minimum personal
costs of meeting these basic needs can be assessed, together with costs of
the popular consensus on other requirements for healthy decent
participatory living. UK policy could next aim to provide for these costs
generally, including the social security and anti-poverty programmes that
determine minimum living standards, and so life chances, of increasing
millions of people;

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