We know that poverty kills, that dirty water kills, that tobacco kills. We know that children thrive on love, that communities are strengthened by social cohesion and that educated and empowered women are a determining factor for the health of a society. Most of the people in this room would agree that the level of health of an individual, a family or any group is strongly dependent on social and economic factors. We have heard this theme echoed in the many UN conferences, all of which have chosen health to be one of the benchmarks by which to measure progress in human development. The World Bank has stated recently:
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Ilona Kickbusch (1997) studied this question.
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