Social injustice 'killing on a grand scale': WHO

A "toxic combination" of poverty and social injustice is killing people on a grand scale, a World Health Organization report said Thursday, urging states to fund healthcare to cut inequalities. The Commission on the Social Determinants of Health, a report commissioned by the WHO and chaired by Sir Michael Marmot of University College London, said these health inequalities were avoidable but only if concerted efforts were made by governments and civil society."Reducing health inequities is an ethical imperative. Social injustice is killing people on a grand scale," the report said.