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Family Practice Vol. 20, No. 1, 95
© Oxford University Press 2003

Book Review

Reducing inequalities in health: a European perspective.

John Mackenbach, Martijntje Bakker (eds). (378 pages, £18.99.) Routledge, 2002. ISBN 0-415-25984-3.

John Macleod

Clinical Research Fellow, Department of General Practice and Primary Care, University of Birmingham

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Social inequalities in health—the fact that poorer people experience more sickness than richer people and live shorter lives—have been apparent as long as information allowing health to be related to social position has been available. In the UK, these gaps are becoming wider. The child of an unskilled . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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