16 Mar 2009 09:00 AM
The Government Must Invest In Health Policies That Work, Say Doctors In The United Kingdom
The BMA is backing today's report by the Health Select Committee calling for the government to only implement policies aimed at reducing health inequalities that are evidence-based. The BMA's Head of Science and Ethics, Dr Vivienne Nathanson, said today:
"There is overwhelming evidence that key interventions like mandatory food-labelling, reducing smoking and encouraging walking and cycling will reduce health inequalities…