Class divide in health widens, says thinktank

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The stark social class divide in health is widening as better-off people increasingly shun damaging habits such as smoking and eating badly but poorer people do not, authoritative new research reveals.

The number of people in England who risk their health by engaging in "multiple lifestyle behaviours" such as smoking, drinking too much and physical inactivity is falling, according to a study by the influential King's Fund health thinktank, shown to the Guardian.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/aug/23/class-divide-health-widens-thinktank
 
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