INEQUALITY continues to kill people on a “grand scale” across England and the world, experts have warned, with poor housing and a lack of education and jobs affecting their health.

A new report from the World Health Organisation (WHO) revealed today that targets designed to help tackle global health inequalities within a generation will not be met.

The warning comes 16 years after WHO’s 2008 commission on the social determinants of health laid out a roadmap to reduce health gaps caused by socioeconomic inequalities.