FYI - a background paper on health inequalities commissioned by the UK
Presidency to coincide with Presidency Conference on Inequalities in Health

Best wishes
David McDaid
LSE Health and Social Care

Health Inequalities: A Challenge for Europe

Ken Judge, Stephen Platt, Caroline Costongs, Kasia Jurczak

http://www.dh.gov.uk/assetRoot/04/12/15/83/04121583.pdf

From the executive summary

Health inequalities are increasingly recognised as an important
public-health issue throughout Europe. As a result of the growing
recognition of the problem,
many countries are responding by developing public policies in a wide
variety of ways.The primary aim of this independent report, which was
commissioned by the UK Presidency of the EU, is to review national-level
policies and strategies - that either have been or are in the process of
being developed to tackle health inequalities - and to reflect on the
challenges that lie ahead. In doing so, it primarily focuses on
socio-economic inequalities in health...........

..... No EU member state has yet made a concerted effort to implement the
most radical approach to health inequalities, namely a reduction in the
health
gradient, whereby health is related to the position of social groups (and
individuals within these groups) at every level within society. We suggest
that EU
member states should consider the potential advantages to society as a
whole that might result from the adoption of this wider frame. One of the
many issues hat needs further thought in the future relates to the value of
targets in national policy-making related to health inequality......

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