Discussion of Papers Presented at the Session, ???Have We Narrowed the Gaps in Health Status between the Poor and the Nonpoor

papers, I'd like to take note of something (I believe to be) rather important about this session as a whole quite important. On such an emotion-laden and politically potent subject as the gap in health status between the poor and nonpoor, we have been treated and this is most unusual with remarkably little rhetoric and polemics. What we have heard is a serious effort, by some of our most experienced health statisticians who are capable of addressing themselves to the quality of the collective evidence, and of interpreting the available data which bear upon, or ought to bear upon, what it is we can believe with respect to this most important issue: a sober analysis of trends in the differences in health status between poor people and people who are not so poor in the decade of the 1960s

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• The social distribution of illness

  Open Access•Dorothy H Broom•Social Science & Medicine•1984

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