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How will the financial crisis affect health?

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Global recession is likely to damage our health as well as our wealth, but it also offers an opportunity to build a more equitable economic model. Sir Michael Marmot Director of the International Institute for Society and Health and Chair of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health and Dr Ruth Bell, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, explain the issues.

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Visitors at the Mapparium in the Mary Baker Eddy Library in Boston, Massachusetts. This was the site to launch Dr. Jean Watson's Million Nurse Project—during the 2010 International Year of the Nurse—to radiate heart-centered Love, Caring and Compassion through individual and collective global meditations. Photo Courtesy of the Mary Baker Eddy Library.