The good news today is that people currently 60 years old and in good health can expect to live another 40 years. But a conference in Belfast on Health Inequalities heard statistics showing that life expectancy varies across a small city like this. The disparity adds up to 5,000 deaths a year in Ireland! My [...]
Archive for October 23rd, 2009
Why do the Poor Die Younger?
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This is the blog of my journalism and recordings, with some extracts from my books too. I tend to sound off on Northern Ireland Politics and Culture. Some of the work here will be recent journalism, articles that have appeared in the Belfast Telegraph or elsewhere, but there is a lot of material going back a couple of years now, so please hang around and browse. Malachi
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