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Inequalities in health : the Black report and the health divide

Contributor(s): Publication details: London : Penguin Books, 1992Description: xiii, 450pISBN:
  • 0140172653
  • 9780140172652
Subject(s): NLM classification:
  • WX 153
Other classification:
  • 362.10941.
Summary: From birth to old age those at the bottom of the social scale have much poorer health and quality of life than those at the top. Gender, area of residence and ethnic origin also have a deep impact. When the Black Report first revealed these tragic inequalities and made urgent recommendations for change, the "British Medical Journal", and many others, regarded it as the most important medical report since World War II. It's findings however, were dismissed by the incoming government, which tried unsuccessfully to bury it. Despite this it had, and continues to have, a profound influence on the medical and academic worlds. This book examines the inequalities that exist in the British Health system.
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"The health divide" is a review commissioned by the Health Education Council, as a follow-up to the Black report.

First published in Pelican Books, containing the Black Report only, 1982; This edition, comprising The Black Report and The Health Divide, first published in Pelican Books 1988. Reprinted in Penguin Books with revisions to The health divide, 1992.

From birth to old age those at the bottom of the social scale have much poorer health and quality of life than those at the top. Gender, area of residence and ethnic origin also have a deep impact. When the Black Report first revealed these tragic inequalities and made urgent recommendations for change, the "British Medical Journal", and many others, regarded it as the most important medical report since World War II. It's findings however, were dismissed by the incoming government, which tried unsuccessfully to bury it. Despite this it had, and continues to have, a profound influence on the medical and academic worlds. This book examines the inequalities that exist in the British Health system.

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