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Journal of Public Health Medicine 25:281-287 (2003)
© Faculty of Public Health 2003; all rights reserved.

Addressing health inequalities in the United Kingdom: a case study*


Adam Oliver, Lecturer, Department of Social Policy and Research Fellow

LSE Health and Social Care, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK


Don Nutbeam, Pro Vice Chancellor, and formerly Head of Public Health at the UK Department of Health

College of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, N.S.W. 2006, Australia


Address correspondence to Dr A. Oliver. e-mail: a.j.oliver{at}lse.ac.uk

Health inequalities research has a long history in the United Kingdom, and the development of government policies that are intended to explicitly address the existing health inequalities has been gathering pace since the Labour Party returned to power in 1997. In this paper, using the influential Acheson Report as a reference point, one of us (D.N.) describes how health inequalities policies have been developed, and the other (A.O.) assesses how, ideally, such policies ought to be developed. Although progress in the development of health inequalities policies has been made, the policies, and the evidence that has informed them, have been less than ideal.

Keywords: United Kingdom, health inequalities policy, equity, Acheson Report


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