Happiness, inequalities, and health
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In this issue we have a mixture of offerings for the summer break: an editorial on health and happiness linked to a paper by Subramanian and colleagues argues that healthy communities tend to be happy communities and explores some of the causal and associated variables, while Stephen Genuis argues that as much of the world’s disease burden results from preventable poor nutrition, it is now time for a global diet strategy.
See pages 614, 664, 615
A third editorial by Mindell and Joffe contends that mathematical modelling is seldom applied to research on global measures of health and inequalities, mainly because of the lack of intervention studies that would underpin such work.
See page 617
In Speaker’s Corner Luis Castiel takes issue with the misuse of euphemisms in public health, in this case the term food insecurity.
See page 618
The Gallery features a flowering almond tree
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