Getting even more serious about prevention: “social injustice is killing on a grand scale”

Oliver’s welcome call for public health interventions “throughout the whole of life” does not go far enough.1 Only a reversal of our continuing drift into social disintegration can begin to restore the nation’s health. Seven decades ago, Britain was terribly poor but the new NHS was embedded in relatively secure provisions of housing, education, employment, and welfare. We are far richer now, but we can’t rely on …