EDITOR, - In a recent article1 Chris Power summarised the results of two studies which we did on socioeconomic health inequalities in different industrialised countries.^2,3 Unfortunately, the box summarising these results contains some inaccuracies which we would like to see corrected. Apart from the incorrect reference figures in the title of the box, the main problem is that our original distinctions in four groups of countries for the size of mortality differentials, and three groups of countries for the size of morbidity differentials, have been replaced by a simple distinction into two classes (low and high, with the intermediate …