The Black Report and Inequalities in Health

Artefact

This argument is undermined by the fact that inequalities have been demonstrated using a number of different systems of measurement of social class. These include occupation, property ownership, educational status and access to social resources.

In 1997 Sally Macintyre described the ‘soft’ version of this argument, pointing out that the gradient of class differences in health will depend, to some extent on how class and health are measured.