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Dear Colleagues Attached information on an editorial by Franco Sassi and colleagues in this weeks British Medical Journal Best wishes David McDaid LSE Health and Social Care Affirmative action: the lessons for health care F Sassi, J Carrier, J Weinberg http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/328/7450/1213?etoc Affirmative action: the lessons for health care Governments are becoming more assertive about reducing ethnic inequalities Even the richest multiethnic societies have so far failed to ensure a fair distribution of health and health care among people with different racial and ethnic backgrounds. Persisting inequalities have been ascribed largely to societies' moral failures and social injustice.1 We discuss here whether the rationale for the use of civil rights remedies such as affirmative action may be extended to the formulation of health policies aimed at addressing disadvantage among minority groups........