It also went on "Children in the manual social classes are twice as likely to die in an accident as those in the non-manual classes, and the poorest two fifths are one and a half times as likely to be at risk of a mental illness as the richest two fifths".

BBC: Minding the health gap

The average American is 36 times more likely to die from heart disease than be murdered, six times more likely to die in an accident and four times more likely to die from Alzheimer's disease, according to data compiled by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics.

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