Poor Health
eBook - ePub

Poor Health

Social Inequality before and after the Black Report

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  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Poor Health

Social Inequality before and after the Black Report

About this book

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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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9781135292256
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Social History
Index
Abel-Smith, Brian 8, 90, 91, 92, 120, 123, 132, 133, 151
Aberdeen 201, 202
accident 43
Acheson, Donald 177, 190, 195, 205
Acheson Committee 1, 9, 195
Acheson Report (1998) 8, 138, 165, 175–97, 224
antecedents 175–6, 224
compared with the Black Report 188, 191, 224
genesis and deliberations of 176–8, 224
the inquiry’s findings and recommendations 178–9, 196–7, 224
interpreting its impact and Labour’s policy
direction 188–90, 224
the policy response to 183–8
reception of 180–83, 224
Acheson Study Group on Primary Health Care 127
action zones 187
Acton Society Trust 95
Adelstein, A. 111
Africa 170
alcohol 43, 114, 160
American Civil War 20
American GIs 39
Angell, James 60
antenatal care 113, 114, 115
anthropometry 14, 22, 24, 223
British Association: Anthropometric Committee 27–8
Arblaster, L. 176
area-based initiatives (ABIs) 187
ARP 39
Attlee, Clement 40
Aylesbury 51
Bailey, Brian 161–2
Bailey, N.T.J. 23
Baird, Dugald 201, 202
Balfour, Margaret 87
Banting, Keith G. 96
Barber, L.E.D. 74–5
Barker, David 206
Barnet, Correlli 58
Bartley, M. 1, 211
Bath University 126
BBC World Service 155, 163
Beddoe, John 22
behaviour 4, 5
Bengali community 114
Benjamin, B. 67, 69
Berlin, Isaiah 143
Bethnal Green, London 70
Bevan, Ernest 3, 89
Beveridge, William...

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title Page
  3. British Politics and Society
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Introduction: Inequalities and Health
  9. Britain Before the Black Report
  10. The Dimensions of Inequality: Height and Weight Variation in Britain, 1700–2000
  11. Health, Class, Place and Politics: Social Capital and Collective Provision in Britain
  12. From Social Structure to Social Behaviour in Britain after the Second World War
  13. Investigating Inequalities in Health before Black
  14. The Black Report
  15. Comments The Black Committee on Health Inequalities (1977–80): A Personal View of its Work
  16. The Origin of the Black Report: A Conversation with Richard Wilkinson
  17. Dispelling the Myths of the Black Report: A Memoir
  18. Witness Seminar The Black Report and The Health Divide
  19. After the Black Report
  20. The ‘Second Black Report'? The Acheson Report as Another Opportunity to Tackle Health Inequalities
  21. Before and after the Black Report: Four Fallacies
  22. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
  23. ABSTRACTS
  24. Index

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