Tackling inequalities in health

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Abstract
The report identifies four areas for intervention: the physical environment, social and economic factors, barriers to adopting a healthier personal lifestyle, and access to appropriate and effective health and social services. For each area one factor has been selected to illustrate possible policy initiatives: housing, income maintenance, smoking, and access to health care. The initiatives range from the development of innovative health education programmes to investments in social housing (to be financed by, among other things, the abolition of tax relief on mortgages) and from ensuring an equitable allocation of NHS resources to changes in the tax system (for example, an increase in the highest rate of income tax).