Stories on health inequality
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Features
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Nasty, brutish and short—or healthy, wealthy and long?
Are Labour’s policies on wealth redistribution, employment and child poverty having any effect on health inequality in Britain? Richard Mitchell and colleagues examine the impact so far
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Poor children, poorly adults
Ending child poverty is the way to begin to narrow health inequality, argues Claire Kober
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All white now?
New disciplinary procedures may end the costly, distressing situation of suspended consultants waiting years to have their cases resolved – but too many people have already suffered medical racism for too long, reports Aneez Esmail
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Inequalities in health: whose baby?
The government wants the fledgling primary care trusts to take responsibility for meeting targets to reduce health inequalities. But it makes more sense for local authorities to take the lead, argues Fiona Campbell
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The long road to a healthy north
Official acknowledgement of Scotland’s appalling health record and widening health inequality should focus the minds of the new Scottish Parliament, says Dick Barbor-Might
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A bad case of chronic prejudice
Despite previous attempts to address the problem, racism persists in British medicine, reports Gina Agarwal
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A bad case of bigotry
Two researchers uncovered evidence of racism in medical training — and found themselves under investigation. Aneez Esmail reports
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Unequal chances of a lifetime
Inequalities in health persist, yet attract little official research funding. David Blane wonders why
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Interviews
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Making a sure start in the job
Can the government take action on health inequality? Labour’s second minister for public health speaks to healthmatters
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A matter of social justice
The disarmingly radical inquiry into Inequalities in Health has recently been published by the government. Its distinguished chair, Sir Donald Acheson, spoke to Geof Rayner about reaction so far
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Column
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News
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WebMonitor
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WebMonitor
income and health
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Stereotypes still hinder race equality
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Milburn’s volley aims to ‘up the game’ on public health
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New figures show progress on poverty and social exclusion
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MP calls for inquiry into medical racism
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A lifetime lasts ten more years in Dorset than in Glasgow
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Milburn sets inequality targets
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‘Wealth redistribution will save lives’
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Britain shamed by child poverty
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Still a long way to go on child poverty
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Blair must tackle wealth inequality, says UKPHA
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Time to neuter the ‘fat cats’
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Poverty threatens the health of young people
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Inequality in child accident deaths is increasing
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APH calls for public spending to relieve poverty
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More than skin deep...
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King’s Fund calls for political will and practical steps to tackle health inequalities
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Quality care needs equality
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Take some good advice
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Ten things you wish you’d seen in The Health of the Nation
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Reviews
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Taking the long view
Reducing Inequalities in Health: a European perspective
Johan Mackenbach and Martijntje Bakker
Routledge 2002. £18.99 -
Arguments for change
HEALTH AND SOCIAL CHANGE: a critical theory
Graham Scambler
Open University Press, 2002, £16.99 -
A dose of reality
ETHNICITY, EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY AND THE BRITISH NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE
Paul Iganski and David Mason
Ashgate Publications, 2002, £39.95 -
Services all inclusive? inclusive?
STIGMA AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION IN HEALTHCARE
Tom Mason, Caroline Carlisle, Caroline Watkins, Elizabeth Whitehead (eds)
Routledge, 2001, £16.99 -
White coat, white club
RACISM IN MEDICINE: an agenda for change
Naaz Coker (ed)
King’s Fund, 2001, £15.99 -
Equal to the task
UNDERSTANDING HEALTH INEQUALITIES
Hilary Graham (ed)
Open University Press, 2000, £17.99 -
New energy on inequality
Gender inequalities in health
Ellen Annandale and Kate Hunt (eds)
Open University Press, 1999, £15.99 -
Sources of inequality
SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
Michael Marmot and Richard Wilkinson (eds)
Oxford University Press, 2000 -
Challenging exclusion
HEALTH AND EXCLUSION: policy and practice in health provision
Michael Purdy & David Banks (eds)
Routledge, 1999, £16.99 -
Workable wisdom
HEALTH AND ILLNESS IN A CHANGING SOCIETY
Michael Bury
Routledge, 1997, £14.99 -
Care in whose community?
’Race’ and community care
Waqar Ahmed and Karl Atkin (eds)
Open University Press, 1996, £12.99
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Letters
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Editorials
