Black mark for health care priorities.
Social class and health are inextricably linked, so it will take more than improvements in direct health care to reduce inequalities, says the report of Sir Douglas Black's working party. Its recommendations, therefore, go beyond health and social service provision and have given the report broader political implications than had been expected. Here, Stephen Halpern looks in detail to the Black report's findings and proposals and the reactions to it.
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