Witness Seminar: The black report and the health divide

Poor Health: Social Inequality before and after the Black Report

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 131-172

  Berridge, Virginia ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

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References (20)

1. David Ennals, Secretary of State for Social Services, 1976-79
2. Dr Elizabeth Shore, Deputy Chief Medical Officer (1977-85) was Peter Shore's wife
3. Acheson Report: Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health (London: HMSO, 1998)
4. Alvin L. Schorr had published widely on income inequality and the effects of poverty on families and children. Among his books, at that time, were Poor Kids: A Report on Children in Poverty (New York: Basic Books, 1966)
5. P. Townsend and N. Davidson (eds), Inequalities in Health (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1988), Table 37
6. Report: Report of the Committee on Local Authority and Allied Personal Social Services, Cmnd 3703 (London: HMSO 1968)
7. Lalonde Report: report brought out in 1974 by Marc Lalonde, Canadian Minister of Health and Welfare (A New Perspective on Health for Canadians [Ottawa: National Health and Welfare, 1974])
8. Todd Report: Royal Commission on Medical Education Report (Chairman, Lord Todd, FRS), Cmnd 3569 (London: HMSO, 1968)
9. The Royal Commission on Long Term Care: With Respect to Old Age: Long Term Care-Rights and Responsibilities. A Report by the Royal Commission on Long Term Care (London: The Stationery Office, 1999)
10. Peter Shore, Labour Secretary of State for the Environment, 1976-79, and husband of Dr Elizabeth Shore, participant in the witness seminar
11. John Moore, Secretary of State for Social Services, 1987-88
12. Sir Patrick Nairne, Permanent Secretary at the DHSS, 1975-81
13. Tessa Jowell, Minister of Public Health at the time of the seminar in 1999
14. Townsend and Davidson, Inequalities in Health; Margaret Whitehead, The Health Divide (London: Penguin, 1988)
15. Michael Marmot, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College, London
16. R.G. Wilkinson, Unhealthy Societies: The Afflictions of Inequality (London: Routledge, 1996)
17. Ray Whitney, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, DHSS, 1984-86
18. Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health (London: HMSO, 1998)
19. D. Black, J.N. Morris, C. Smith and P. Townsend, 'Better Benefits for Health: Plan to Implement the Central Recommendation of the Acheson Report', British Medical Journal, 318 (1999), pp.724-2s7
20. Caiman's health variations report: Department of Health, The Health of the Nation: A Strategy for Health in England (London: HMSO, 1992)