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Critically evaluate the following statement: ‘Social policy is potentially a more important determinant of public health than medicine’ You must Read the book,WEBSITES and ALL articles , to answer the...

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Critically evaluate the following statement:

‘Social policy is potentially a more important determinant of public health than medicine’

You must Read the book,WEBSITES and ALL articles, to answer the above questions and you MUST include them in references list and based on them to write this assignment .

Book citation: Chapter 12 (p XXXXXXXXXXof Baldock, J., Manning, N., and Vickerstaff, S. (eds XXXXXXXXXXSocial Policy (4th edition). Oxford, Oxford University Press.
- Chapter 15 (p XXXXXXXXXXof Baldock, J., Manning, N., and Vickerstaff, S. (eds XXXXXXXXXXSocial Policy (4th edition). Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Article 1 citation: Marmot, M. and Wilkinson, R. (eds XXXXXXXXXXThe Solid Facts. Copenhagen, WHO Europe. http://www.euro.who.int/document/e81384.pdf
Article 2 citation: Whitehead, M XXXXXXXXXXA typology of actions to tackle inequalities in health. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 61: XXXXXXXXXX

Websites (THIS WEBSITE ALSO YOU MUST INCLUDE THEM IN REFERENCES LIST AND BASED ON IT TO WRITE THIS ASSIGNMENT)

1st website: Black Report Chapter 9 (Policies to reduce health inequalities) http://www.sochealth.co.uk/history/black.htm

2ed website: Acheson, D XXXXXXXXXXIndependent inquiry into inequalities in health. http://www.archive.official-documents.co.uk/document/doh/ih/contents.htm

3^rd website: BBC online XXXXXXXXXXHealth inequality gap widening http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/ XXXXXXXXXXstm

4^th website: Sites relating to the contemporary work by Wilkinson, R and Pickett, K on social determinants of health (The Spirit Level) http://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2009/mar/05/the-spirit-level

You must read all articles, websites and books and include them on references list

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Introduction  
Health inequalities are a major matter of concern to the government of all states; the problem 
is raising socio economic differences in the facilities available to all. Different articles and 
finding shows astonishing figures of mortality rate and illness which can be distinguish on the 
basis of social economic measures (Baldock, et al., 2012). This article will focus on 
understanding the impact of social policies on public health. Though medicine is important 
for fighting with health issues but after a point investments on medicines will also not lead to 
any development in the health industry as it is shaped and impacted by number of factors that 
can be addressed through social policies.  
Discussion  
Social policy  
Though the health conditions in Britain have improved dramatically in number of factors 
such as decreasing mortality rates, increasing life expectancy but inequality gap has widened 
in number of areas (BBC online, 2005). For instance there is huge difference in life chance 
between genders, such as the death expectancy ration between males and females generally is 
1.85. Beside gender, there is huge difference in regional health scenarios also, for instance if 
regional variation is analyzed on the mortality rate factor than there is difference in the 
number in all regions, for example, mortality rate in Northern, Yorkshire & Humberside is 
113 (DHSS, 2013), whereas in south east region it is 90. Similarly, there is huge difference 
lies on many other factors such as race, ethnicity, etc (Marmot & Wilkinson, 2003).  
Therefore,

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