TY - JOUR T1 - Dead Unequal JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 3 LP - 3 DO - 10.3399/bjgp17X688429 VL - 67 IS - 654 AU - Roger Jones Y1 - 2017/01/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/67/654/3.abstract N2 - The theme of this month’s BJGP is Inequalities. Health inequalities can take many forms, including the impact of poverty per se on the quality of life, life expectancy, and life chances of poor people, the health impacts of belonging to vulnerable or marginalised groups, such as the old and the mentally ill, and inequalities in care resulting from variation among practices and hospitals. As well as the corrosive effect of absolute poverty, the economic differences between the rich and the poor — the poverty gap — also contributes to differential morbidity and mortality. Figures for the impact of poverty and deprivation on … ER -