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The NHS can only offer a "sticking plaster" for a health gap between rich and poor by itself, it has been claimed.
A "joined-up approach across a raft of policy areas" is needed to tackle the problem, Holyrood's Health committee has concluded.
MSPs found "well-intended initiatives" had aimed to reduce the gap between affluent and deprived areas.
However none has made "any significant difference".
They also heard from experts that the effect of "lifestyle public health campaigns" encouraging people to eat more healthily, give up smoking, exercise more and drink less was "to widen inequalities rather than to narrow them".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-30671994
A "joined-up approach across a raft of policy areas" is needed to tackle the problem, Holyrood's Health committee has concluded.
MSPs found "well-intended initiatives" had aimed to reduce the gap between affluent and deprived areas.
However none has made "any significant difference".
They also heard from experts that the effect of "lifestyle public health campaigns" encouraging people to eat more healthily, give up smoking, exercise more and drink less was "to widen inequalities rather than to narrow them".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-30671994