TY - JOUR T1 - News scoop—hold the front page: “poverty damages health” JF - Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health JO - J Epidemiol Community Health SP - 89 LP - 89 VL - 59 IS - 2 AU - Carlos Alvarez-Dardet AU - John R Ashton Y1 - 2005/02/01 UR - http://jech.bmj.com/content/59/2/89.abstract N2 - In this issue, we carry a number of research papers, which, in one way and another, address issues of poverty, deprivation, and health. For example: Geographical variation in life expectancy at birth in England and Wales is largely explained by deprivation. Is the rate of biological aging, as measured by age at diagnosis of cancer, socioeconomically patterned? Answer: it seems to be. Does material disadvantage explain the increased risk of adverse health, educational and behavioural outcomes among children in lone parent households in Britain? Answer: apparently yes. In Italy, income inequality has an independent and more powerful effect on life expectancy at birth than does per capita income and educational attainment; the relation between income inequality and population health has not disappeared. Material and behavioural … ER -