Next week the Royal Colleges of General Practitioners, Nursing, and Physicians, the Faculty of Public Health Medicine, Action in International Medicine (an organisation of colleges and academies of health professionals with member institutions in 30 countries), and the BMJ will hold a conference on poverty and health. The conference will be part of worldwide professional activity to reduce the harmful effects of poverty. This week the BMJ publishes its fourth issue in two years that has clustered papers on inequalities in health. Why all the fuss? Some suggest that it's because the BMJ is politically motivated. If that means the BMJ wants action on a major threat to health, it's true. We would like all political parties in all countries to pay attention to inequalities in health. Many are reluctant to do so. They are more concerned to cut taxes and so win the votes of what the economist J K Galbraith calls the comfortable majority.
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机译：下周，皇家全科医生，护理学院和内科医学院，公共卫生医学学院，国际医学行动（由在30个国家设有会员机构的卫生专业学院和学院组成的组织）和BMJ将举行会议关于贫困与健康。该会议将成为减少贫困的有害影响的全球专业活动的一部分。 BMJ本周出版了两年来的第四期，该期集中了有关健康不平等的论文。为什么大惊小怪？有些人认为这是因为BMJ具有政治动机。如果那意味着BMJ希望针对健康的重大威胁采取行动，那是真的。我们希望所有国家的所有政党都注意卫生方面的不平等。许多人不愿意这样做。他们更关心减税，因此赢得了经济学家J·K·加尔布雷思（J K Galbraith）所谓的多数派选票。
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