He suggested widening
health inequalities raised serious concerns for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), which plans on increasing the state pension age to 66.
Not exact matches
As a candidate, de Blasio campaigned against the city's skyrocketing
inequality, got arrested with
health care workers to stop hospital closures, and promised to
raise taxes on the city's wealthiest.
A failure to link concerns about rural
health inequalities into wider national and global debates about
inequality is a missed opportunity, both for
raising awareness about the issues at play, as well as for identifying potential solutions.
I have already commenced to focus attention on some of the issues
raised, such as
health inequality and mental
health.
While the impact of climate change on
health was not explicitly
raised in the session summaries, Mark Butler talked about the «often enormous synergies» between good
health policy and climate change / urban planning policies when he co-chaired the session on
health inequalities and whole of government challenges.
The first is that the extent of
health inequality experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
raises issues of compliance with Australia's human rights obligations.
In March 2005, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination also identified that the extent of
inequality in
health status of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
raises issues of compliance with Article 5 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.