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“The environment can actually affect gene expression.”

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Michael Marmot is a prominent scholar in the field of health and social sciences, focusing on the relationship between work environment, social inequality, and health. more

“Australia is a very healthy country which goes along with the fact that it's very high on the Human Development Index, high wealth, good levels of education. So Australia ranks right up there, second or third on the Human Development Index. And Indigenous Australians, if you treated them as if they were a separate country, would rank probably about 100th or below 100.”

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“The differences between Indigenous and not Indigenous Australians can be easily attributed not to differences in their genes but to differences in the conditions in which they're born, grow, live, work and age - in other words, to the social determinants of health.”

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“Empowerment of individuals and communities is absolutely central. Getting the community involved in organising their own destiny has got to be a key part of it.”

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“For every dollar spent on early child development you save $7 over the life course because children with better early child development are less likely to end up delinquent, involved in crime, unemployed and so on.”

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“Saying we can't afford to invest in early child development means we're storing up bigger costs in the future.”

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“If the economists are arguing as to whether we need to cut or stimulate, because they're completely opposite policies, and they can't work it out then I would say let us work it out for you. Let's look at the lives people are able to lead, the effect of policies on the lives people are able to lead, and hence the likely effect on health and health inequalities.”

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“Health and health inequalities tell us a great deal about the good or bad effects of social policies.”

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“Throwing young people on the scrap heap is a public health emergency.”

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“We have to put reduction of health inequalities at the centre of our public health strategy and that will require action on the social determinants of health.”

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“Our elected politicians do what they judge is the right thing to do. And if we disagree then I'll show them the evidence of why I disagree.”

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