Better benefits for health: plan to implement the central recommendation of the Acheson report
BMJPublished 13 March 1999Open access
Dennis D. Black, J.N. Morris, Christian Michael Smith, Philip A. Townsend
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The 1998 Acheson report echoes the findings of the 1980 Black report that the gap in inequalities in health has been steadily increasing and that differences in material deprivation are a major cause of the increase.
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