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“Height is probably 95 per cent genetic.”

Quote by Michael Marmot

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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

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“Your position in the hierarchy influences your behaviour.”

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“I don't blame people for smoking when I see a social gradient in smoking. I say we need to understand why is it the lower you are in the hierarchy the more likely you are to smoke. So we need to address the causes of the causes.”

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“The brain is an important gateway by which the social environment impacts on people's health through the mind.”

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“There's good evidence that if people are disempowered, if they have little control over their lives, if they're socially isolated or unable to participate fully in society, then there are biological effects.”

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“The environment can actually affect gene expression.”

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“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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