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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jemma Crew

Reducing poverty and inequality should be ‘urgent public health necessity’

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Reducing poverty and economic inequality in the UK should be an “urgent public health necessity” as these are “toxic” to mental and physical health, a report warns.

The Centre for Mental Health is sounding the alarm over a “public health emergency” that needs to be addressed by increasing the income and reducing costs of the least well-off.

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