THE JOURNAL OF THE INCREASINGLY RELEVANT

In this issue of our journal, which seems to the authors to contain increasingly relevant evidence about the way to secure meaningful health improvement at the population level, we carry contributions that range through inequalities, screening, play areas and child safety, disasters, aetiological aspects of multiple sclerosis, and tentative question marks over statin use.

The JECH Gallery asks whether the photographic evidence of schools in socially contrasting neighbourhoods provides clues as to health outcomes, and a view from the grave provides convincing evidence that inequalities persist into the afterlife. In Speaker’s Corner, Choi mines a creative vein in discussing traditional proverbs and suggesting some new ones. My own, recent favourite is “health is a journey, not a destination”, although an old, reassuring favourite is the Newtonian sounding “everyone has the same total amount of sin”. Meanwhile, Levi Tafari’s poem addresses the profligate way in which humans are consuming finite world resources (would a wise God trust humans with the custodianship of …