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An assessment of the Black Report's explanations of health inequalities
Author(s) -
Blane David
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
sociology of health and illness
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.146
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1467-9566
pISSN - 0141-9889
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9566.ep10832355
Subject(s) - materialism , inequality , subject (documents) , epistemology , sociology , class (philosophy) , medical sociology , social class , social science , medicine , public health , political science , law , nursing , philosophy , computer science , mathematical analysis , mathematics , library science
The Black Report identifies four types of possible explanation for social class differences in health, and judges one of these (‘materialist’) to be the most important. This paper seeks to support this assessment with additional evidence from the literatures of sociology and medicine. In the process it suggests questions which could usefully be the subject of future research.