Health inequalities and New Labour: how the promises compare with real progress
- 28 April 2005
- Vol. 330 (7498), 1016-1021
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.330.7498.1016
Abstract
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the World Health Organization's Global Strategy for Health for All by the Year 2000, which proposed 38 targets to reduce inequalities in health.1 These targets were taken up by the governments of many countries, including Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government in the United Kingdom, which, just like Tony Blair's current administration, wished that inequalities in health would fall (see box).This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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