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HEALTH REPORTS AND THE ROLE OF HEALTH CARE  

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ADVANCED LEVEL SOCIOLOGY HEALTH REPORTS AND THE ROLE OF HEALTH CARE Despite the intentions of Prime Ministers such as Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair to create a classless society in Britain, class inequalities (that is, the difference between the way the lower working classes and the middle and upper classes are treated) continue to exist. In his speech to the Faculty of Public Health Medicine on 20 November 2002, Alan Milburn (Secretary of State for Health) stated that: "The key questions today should be about how best we can bring about that improvement in the public's health. How best can we cut deaths from heart disease? How best can we improve cancer survival rates? How best can we add years to life and add life to years? And crucially, how best can we tackle the huge inequalities in health which scar our nation? (Dept of Health) As the gap widens between social classes,...

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