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Dignity, social investment and the Indigenous health gap
Author(s) -
Marmot Michael G
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/mja17.00297
Subject(s) - marmot , dignity , indigenous , sociology , law , political science , ecology , biology
University College London, L n general, Australians are healthy. The data bear this out. A summary measure, Ilife expectancy, putsAustralianmen in an elite group at the top of the global rankings just behind, in order, Hong Kong, Iceland, Switzerland, Italy, Israel and Sweden. Australian women, too, are near the top of the international life expectancy league. Hong Kong now exceeds Japan, and a few other countries enter, butAustralianwomen are in an elite healthy group.