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Poor Health Virginia Berridge

Poor Health By Virginia Berridge

Poor Health by Virginia Berridge


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Summary

This work explores how health inequalities have been examined in the past, and the policy record in treating them.

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Poor Health: Social Inequality before and after the Black Report by Virginia Berridge

The 1980 Black Report by Sir Douglas Black has kept health inequalities at the forefront of the public health agenda. This volume explores the history and development of studies and concern over health inequalities especially in relation to the 1980 report.

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'Poor Health is fascinating ... useful as popular history and as an embodiment of the idea that Labour cares and the Tories don't.' - Health Service Journal

Table of Contents

Introduction - inequalities and health, Virginia Berridge; Part 1 Britain before the Black Report: the dimensions of inequality - height, and weight variation in Britain 1700-2000, Roderick Floud; health, class place and politics - social capital and collective provision in Britain, Simon Szreter; from social structure to social behaviour in Britain after the Second World War, Dorothy Porter; investigating inequalities in health before Black, Charles Webster. Part 2 The Black Report: comments the Black committee on health inequalities (1977-80) - a personal view of its work, Stuart Blume; the origin of the Black Report - a conversation with Richard Wilkinson, Virginia Berridge; dispelling the myths of the Black Report - a memoir, Patrick Jenkin; witness seminar the Black Report and The Health Divide, Virginia Berridge; the second Black Report? - the Acheson Report as another opportunity to tackle health inequalities, Mark Exworthy; before and after the Black Report - four fallacies, Sally Macintyre.

Additional information

GOR009522679
9780714683102
0714683108
Poor Health: Social Inequality before and after the Black Report by Virginia Berridge
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2002-11-01
244
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