C/S/11. Health care systems and social inequality

This essay considers recent thinking in Europe regarding health care and inequalities. It looks at the general principle that social inequalities produce health inequalities. Also those efforts should be made by responsible governments to reduce inequality in health care. It then looks in more detail at recent developments in two European countries: the UK and Denmark. It considers that both have made considerable efforts to link health care and social inequality, but that both have points of weakness in the practice.