An uphill struggle

Something of a cri de coeur from Clare Bambra and others is contained in a comparison of the Black, Acheson and Marmot reports. Looking at the content as well as the political context in which the reports were commissioned and published, the article find similarities in theoretical underpinning and in effects, not to mention the uncanny likeness of circumstances for Black and Marmot. And there's a rather melancholy conclusion: "Looking to the future, researchers may improve the likelihood of their research having a wider policy impact by focusing less on describing the problem and more on ways to solve it." An analysis of the UK approach between 1997 and 2010 from a Dutch academic is similarly bleak.