Your position in the hierarchy influences your behaviour.

- Michael Marmot

Health and health inequalities tell us a great deal about the good or bad effects of social policies.

- Michael Marmot

For every dollar spent on early child development you save $7 over the life course because children with better early child development are less like…

- Michael Marmot

Empowerment of individuals and communities is absolutely central. Getting the community involved in organising their own destiny has got to be a key …

- Michael Marmot

I was born in North London, migrated to Australia when I was four. So when I first came to Australia people saw me as a little English boy. Over the …

- Michael Marmot

I don't blame people for smoking when I see a social gradient in smoking. I say we need to understand why is it the lower you are in the hierarchy th…

- Michael Marmot

We have to put reduction of health inequalities at the centre of our public health strategy and that will require action on the social determinants o…

- Michael Marmot

Australia is a very healthy country which goes along with the fact that it's very high on the Human Development Index, high wealth, good levels of ed…

- Michael Marmot

The lower you are in the hierarchy the worse your health, the higher you are, the better your health.

- Michael Marmot