Jerry Morris
LONDON—More than seventy years after he began work in public health, and just a few months short of his 100th birthday, Professor Jerry Morris—one of the 1930s pioneers of the British National Health Service—is hard at work in the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine investigating factors which keep ordinary people in the community alive longer. His research team has already established that a threshold of income is needed for a minimum standard of health. In discussions with Peter Goodwin he urged the need for acceptance of minimum wages around the world on the basis of the health criteria which he and his co-workers have defined.
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