Good health depends on class, gender and location

PAUL CULLEN, Health Correspondent THE BEST way to be in a state of good health is to be a wealthy married woman living in a city suburb, to judge from the latest census findings on people���s physical wellbeing.Most of us ��� about six out of 10 people ��� enjoy very good health, the results from last year���s census show, but there are clear differences across class, gender and geographical lines. Overall, city dwellers have the poorest levels of general health, despite the fact that inhabitants of suburbs in the five main cities enjoy the best overall health. Some 92.1 per cent of the suburban population have good or very good health compared with 88.4 per cent in cities. Aside from the...