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Q J Med 2003; 96: 239-240
© 2003 Association of Physicians

Biologic

Me and my heart

Colin Berry

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The Health Variations Programme is a research programme focused on the social determinants of health inequalities. It was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council from 1996 to 2001. Its aims were to undertake multi-disciplinary social science research to advance the understanding of the social processes that underlie and mediate socio-economic inequalities in health, and to advance the methodology of health inequalities research.

Having been chairman of an MRC board, I am aware of what you might call competitive pressure for grants, and the years of battle at Board and on the Council have left me scarred. This has lead to an unreasonable caution (no—those are weasel words—a suspicion) of work where endpoints or outcome measures are difficult to define. The kind of work supported in this initiative is difficult . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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