Setting targets to address inequalities in health

Lancet

Volumn 351, Issue 9111, 1998, Pages 1279-1282

  Whitehead, Margaret ^a,b   Scott Samuel, Alex ^d   Dahlgren, Göran ^c  

^a KING S FUND   (United Kingdom)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RISK FACTOR; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 0032565323     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(98)03302-9     Document Type: Note

References (26)

1. 1 Prime Minister, Mr Tony Blair, House of Commons Hansard, 11 June 1997, cols 1139-40.
2. 2 The Scottish Office Department of Health. Working together for a healthier Scotland. Cm 3854. Edinburgh: The Stationery Office, 1998.
3. 3 Our healthier nation: a contract for health. Cm 3852. London: The Stationery Office, 1998.
4. 4 The new NHS : modern, dependable. Cm 3807. London: The Stationery Office, 1997.
5. 5 NHS Executive. The new NHS, modern and dependable: a national framework for assessing performance. Consultation document. Leeds: NHS Executive, 1998.
6. 6 Whitehead M, Diderichsen F. International evidence on social inequalities in health. In: Drever F, Whitehead M, eds. Health inequalities - Decennial Supplement. Office for National Statistics Series DS No 15. London: The Stationery Office, 1997.
7. 7 Swedish Ministry of Health and Social Affairs. Terms of reference for a Parliamentary Committee to define national public health objectives. Stockholm: December, 1995.
8. 8 World Health Organisation. Targets for health for all: targets in support of the European regional strategy for health for all. Copenhagen: WHO, 1985.
9. 9 World Health Organisation. A strategy for health for all: revised targets. Copenhagen: WHO, 1991.
10. 10 World Health Organisation. Renewing the health for all strategy: elaboration of a policy for equity, solidarity and health. Consultation document. Geneva: WHO, 1995.
11. 11 Scott-Samuel A. Social inequalities in health: back on the agenda. Lancet 1987; i: 1084-85.
12. 12 Whitehead M. The health divide. In: Townsend P, Whitehead M, Davidson N, eds. Inequalities in health: the Black report and the health divide. 2nd ed. London: Penguin, 1992.
13. 13 Whitehead M, Evandrou M, Haglund B, Diderichsen F. As the health divide widens in Sweden and Britain, what's happening to access to care? BMJ 1997; 315: 1006-09.
14. 14 Anon. Population health looking upstream. Lancet 1994; 343: 429-30.
15. 15 Scott-Samuel A. The WHO strategy and community nutrition in the UK. Nutrition and Health 1989; 6: 129-33.
16. 16 Promoting health/preventing disease: year 2000 objectives for the nation. Washington: US Department of Health and Human Services, 1989.
17. 17 Health Promotion Authority for Wales. Health for all in Wales, Part B: health promotion challenges for the 1990s. Cardiff: Health Promotion Authority for Wales, 1990.
18. 18 Nutbeam D, Wise M, Bauman A, Harris E, Leeder S. Goals and targets for Australia's health in the year 2000 and beyond. Camberra: Commonwealth Department of Health, Housing and Community Services, 1993.
19. 19 Griffiths J, Pollock R, Grice D, Glasson J, Dunkley R. Lessons in class. Health Service Journal 1991, August 20-21.
20. 20 Platt MJ, Ord K, Ashton J. Indicators and targets for health for all in the Mersey Region. 1991 update. Observatory Report Series No 1. Liverpool: Liverpool Public Health Observatory, 1991.
21. 21 Working together for Glasgow's health: Glasgow City Health Plan 1995. Glasgow: Glasgow City Council, 1995.
22. 22 World health Organisation. City planning for health and sustainable development. European Sustainable Development and Health Series No 2. Copenhagen: WHO, 1997.
23. 23 Welsh Health Planning Forum. Protocol for investment in health gain: maternal and early child health. Cardiff: The Welsh Office NHS Directorate, 1991.
24. 24 Irish Government. National anti-poverty stategy. Dublin: Government Publications. The Stationery Office, 1997.
25. 25 Horton R. Our healthier nation, possibly. Lancet 1998; 351: 463.
26. 26 Benzeval M, Judge K, Whitehead M, eds. Tackling inequalities in health: an agenda for action. London: King's Fund, 1995.