This work explores how health inequalities have been examined in the past, and the policy record in treating them.

The 1980 Black Report by Sir Douglas Black has kept health inequalities at the forefront of the public health agenda. This volume explores the history and development of studies and concern over health inequalities especially in relation to the 1980 report.

'Poor Health is fascinating ... useful as popular history and as an embodiment of the idea that Labour cares and the Tories don't.' - Health Service Journal