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Equally Well: Report of the Ministerial Task Force on Health Inequalities - Volume 2

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1 General Register Office for Scotland GRO(S)

2 Wood et al; Measuring inequalities in health: the case for healthy life expectancy; Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health; 2006; Vol 60; pp1089-1092.

3 Leon, David; 2002; Scotland's Health in an International Context

4 Leyland et al; Inequalities in mortality in Scotland 1981-2001; MRC Social and Public Health Science Unit, Glasgow; 2007

5 Atlas of Tobacco Smoking in Scotland, Health Scotland 2007

6 Doll R, Peto R. Boreham J, Sutherland I. Mortality in relation to smoking: 50 years observations on male British doctors. BMJ 2004; 328: 1519-33.

7 Jha P, Peto R, Zatonski W, Boreham J, Jarvis M, Lopez A. Social inequalities in male mortality from smoking: indirect estimation from national death rates in England and Wales, Poland and North America. Lancet 2006; 368: 367-70.

8 Gruer L, Hart C, Watt G, Gordon D; 2007; Smokers die younger, regardless of sex or social position: 28 years of follow-up of a large prospective cohort in the United Kingdom. Submitted for publication.

9 Burchardt et al (2003)

10 Mackenback et al (2005)

11 Bosmoa et al (2007)

12 http://www.growingupinscotland.org.uk/

13 Gruer L et al. Hidden Harm: responding to the needs of children of problem drug users. London, Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, Home Office 2003. www.drugs.gov.uk

14 Alcohol Misuse in Scotland (January 2005)

15 Lister et al (2005) 'The Societal Costs of Potentially Preventable Illnesses: A possible approach'

16 A fuller description of alcohol-related inequalities is included in the Ministerial Task Force on Health Inequalities paper: An overview of the statistics relating to health inequalities.

17 http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/servlet/FileBuffer?namedFile=CHD_incidence_Board_IC1.xls

18 Doyal, L., Payne, S., Cameron, A., (2003) Promoting gender equality in health Equal Opportunities Commission, http://www.eoc.org.uk/pdf/promoting_gender_equaliy_in_health.pdf

19 Warner, J., McKeown, E., Griffin, M., Johnson, K., Ramsey, A., Cort, C. and King, M. (2004), Rates and predictors of mental illness in gay men, lesbians and bisexual men and women, British Journal of Psychiatry, 185, pp. 479-485.

20 Stonewall, Scottish Executive (2003) Towards a Healthier LGBT Scotland.

21 Fischbacher et al. BMC Public Health 2007; 7:142.

22 Fischbacher et al. Scottish Medical Journal 2007; 52:5-10.

23 Crown Publications (2007) Fairness and Freedom: The Final Report of the Equalities Review.

24 R. Wilkinson (1996) Unhealthy Societies: the Affliction of Inequality. London: Routledge.

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