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From: "Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Friday, October 22, 2004 1:36:33 PM
Subject: [EQ] Minimum Incomes for Healthy Living: next thrust in
UK social policy?
From: The Health Equity Network (HEN)
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 11:44
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
<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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