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The black report was a document published by the Department of Health and social security, this report had shown that overall health had been improved however there were still some health inequalities caused by economic inequalities.

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Sir Douglas Black was comissioned in 1977 by the labour government to investigate the various outcomes in health care spreading across social classes (upper, upper-middle, middle, working and lower) so that policies could be put in place.

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The group aspired to increse child beneft, improve housing and agreeing working conditions with unions.

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The aim of the black report was to bring to light economic inequalities and the death rate in men in social class that was increasing and not decreasing after the report came out.

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The report shows that people who had issues with income, education, housing, diet, employment and working conditions. Although all of these struggles were very real the proposals were too costly and it was impossible and so the policy could not be made for over a decade later.

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The group who published the report had found that there was differences in mortality rates across the social groups, with those in lower social groups struggling with the higher rates of mortality.

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The black report was rejected by the conservative government because what they were proposing was costing too much, it had little impact on policy for more then 10 years.