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Presents an editorial regarding health inequalities in the European Union. Differences in health experience and health status between countries, regions, and social groups; Reference to a summit meeting called "Tackling Health Inequalities: Governing for Health"; Awarding of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for 2005 to Barry J. Marshall and J. Robin Warren for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori, which is associated with low socioeconomic status and poor living and housing conditions in childhood; Rate of infection among the populations of central and eastern European countries in comparison to western Europe; Inequalities of morbidity and mortality.