Years ago, an NGO poster showed a world map with an uncomfortable truth: being born at one point or another on the planet determined your risk of suffering poverty or malnutrition. Today you don’t need to cross oceans to run into that border. As the 3,000 experts gathered these days in Bilbao at the European Public Health Conference show, the gap can be crushing within the same city, just a few metro stops.
Years ago, an NGO poster showed a world map with an uncomfortable truth: being born at one point or another on the planet determined your risk of suffering poverty or malnutrition. Today you don’t need to cross oceans to run into that border. As the 3,000 experts gathered these days in Bilbao at the European Public Health Conference show, the gap can be crushing within the same city, just a few metro stops.