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• “Health inequalities that are preventable by reasonable measures are unfair. Putting them right is a matter of social justice. ” (Michael Marmot, Fair Society, Healthy Lives - Marmot Review, 2010)

• “A debate about how to close the health gap has to be a debate about what sort of society people want.” (Michael Marmot, Fair Society, Healthy Lives - Marmot Review, 2010)

• “Income inequalities affect the lives people are able to lead.” (Amartya Sen, Inequality Reexamined, 1992)

• “A fair society would give people more equal freedom to lead flourishing lives.” (Michael Marmot, Fair Society, Healthy Lives - Marmot Review, 2010)

• “Social injustice is killing on a grand scale.” (CSDH, Closing the Gap, 2008)

• “Health inequities exist because the wrong policies are in place.” (Margarat Chan, WHO Director-General, WHO World Conference on SDH, 2011)