Poor three times more likely to die than wealthy from same causes

WEALTH means health with rich people outliving poorer people simply because they can afford to, a report shows.

Between 1989 and 1998 death rates for all causes of death were over three times higher among poor people than among the wealthiest.

“In no other area is the impact of inequality on society as devastating as it is on our health,” the first report from the newly formed Public Health Alliance of Ireland (PHAI) states.