Editorials

Increasing inequalities in the health of the nation

Raising the subject of socioeconomic inequalities in health can produce the weary reaction that these are now so widely recognised that little purpose is served by flogging this dead horse again.¹ Certainly the flat denial of such inequalities has almost become a thing of the past. The well known attempt by the government to stifle any reaction to the Black report on inequalities in health 14 years ago² has given way to an apparently more reasoned approach. Indeed, it was announced at a conference organised by the BMA earlier this year that the government was establishing an interdepartmental working group to examine the links between social position and health³ as part of the continuing review of the Health of the Nation's targets.⁴

The setting up of this working party is timely, given the accumulating evidence that socioeconomic differences in health have increased since the Black report . . . [Full text of this article]

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