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Dear Colleagues
Info attached on paper in Sociology of Health & Illness which may be of
interest
Best wishes
David McDaid
LSE Health and Social Care

'Radical blueprint for social change'? Media representations of New
Labour's policies on public health

Rosemary Davidson, Kate Hunt, Jenny Kitzinger
Sociology of Health & Illness; Volume 25, Issue 6, Page 532
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111/1467-9566.00357

Abstract
For almost two decades prior to the election of the New Labour government
in 1997, inequalities in health were largely absent from the political
debate in Britain. New Labour sought to bring inequalities, and the role of
poverty as a 'root cause' of ill-health, back on to the public agenda. This
paper analyses four key documents (Green and White Papers) laying out their
proposals for public health. We explore the shifting emphasis on health
inequalities between the four official documents, and between the documents
and their associated press release. The paper also analyses how this
translated into media coverage. It identifies common themes across the
press coverage - such as criticisms about lack of targets - but also shows
how coverage varied (e.g. between UK 'national' and 'Scottish' press).
Finally, the study highlights the crucial issue of political context and
news timing, illustrating how the English White Paper was overshadowed by
other health stories which formed the basis for attacks on the Labour
government in general and the Health Minister in particular.

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