Local Government and Inequalities in Health

This book provides a perspective on the continued existence of inequalities in health and strategies for reducing them. It provides new information on the existence of inequalities in health at a local level and examines the role that local government has played in maintaining health and reducing inequalities in health. As well as presenting analyses of historical and contemporary developments in local authority health services, it contains original research findings on inequalities in health amongst elderly people in a local area. A feature of this book is that it addresses the issues of health maintenance and the reduction of inequalities in health from the perspective that local government should play the leading role. It supports the findings in the Black Report, developing them in the context of local government and offers a strategy that local authorities could adopt for achieving improvements in health and a reduction in inequalities in health.