Increasing inequalities in the health of the nation

Abstract
The setting up of this working party is timely, given the accumulating evidence that socioeconomic differences in health have increased since the Black report was published.5 6 7 In this week's journal McLoone and Boddy show that between the early 1980s and the early 1990s differences in mortality between deprived and affluent small areas of Scotland have increased substantially,8 a phenomenon that has also been reported in the largest Scottish city, Glasgow (p 1482).9