Poor Health: Social Inequality before and after the Black Report

ISBN-13: 9780714683102 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 244 str.

Virginia Berridge; Stuart Blume

Opis

Health inequalities have re-emerged as a major issue in the 21st century. Yet the past history of this subject has been little understood. What causes health inequalities? How can they be tackled? This work explores how health inequalities have been examined in the past, and the policy record in treating them. The focus is on how health inequality has been dealt with since the founding of the National Health Service in 1948. Despite the egalitarian aspirations of its founders, the NHS seems to have had little effect on levels of health inequality. One key effort to understand why was the 1980 Black Report. This was probably the most extensive effort to address the problem in post-war Britain. Yet what has been its legacy? Was it, as alleged at the time, suppressed by the Thatcher government? And what can current policymakers learn from its findings? The contributors to this volume, both those involved in the development and objectives of health policy in Britain and academic specialists in social health inequalities, tell the story of Black and its legacy.

Recenzje

'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

Spis treści

Introduction: Inequalities and Health, Virginia Berridge; Part 1 Britain Before the Black Report; Chapter 1 The Dimensions of Inequality: Height and Weight Variation in Britain, 1700–2000, Roderick Floud; Chapter 2 Health, Class, Place and Politics: Social Capital and Collective Provision in Britain, Simon Szreter; Chapter 3 From Social Structure to Social Behaviour in Britain after the Second World War, Dorothy Porter; Chapter 4 Investigating Inequalities in Health before Black, Charles Webster; Part 2 The Black Report; Chapter 5 The Black Committee on Health Inequalities (1977–80): A Personal View of its Work, Stuart Blume; Chapter 6 The Origin of the Black Report: A Conversation with Richard Wilkinson, Virginia Berridge; Chapter 7 Dispelling the Myths of the Black Report: A Memoir, Patrick Jenkin; Chapter 8 The Black Report and The Health Divide, Virginia Berridge; Part 3 After the Black Report; Chapter 9 The ‘Second Black Report’? The Acheson Report as Another Opportunity to Tackle Health Inequalities, Mark Exworthy; Chapter 10 Before and after the Black Report: Four Fallacies, Sally Macintyre;

O autorze

Virginia Berridge London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London. Stuart Blurne University of Amsterdam