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This essay is going to outline and evaluate the evidence of variations in health and illness by class, gender, age, ethnicity and religion. This essay will also evaluate sociological explanations for inequalities in health, for example, artefact, social selection, cultural, structural, psycho/social and life course. A standard form of referencing will be used. There are two reports which have been commissioned by the government to try and find some evidence of variations in health and illness. These are The Black Report (1980) chaired by Sir Douglas Black and The Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health by Sir Donald Acheson (1998). Firstly, in The Black Report inequalities in human health take a number of distinctive forms. Most attention is given to differences in health as measured over the years between the social (or more strictly occupational) classes. When comparing rates of mortality among men and women in each of the 5 classes....

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