Redistribution to narrow the gaps in health between rich and poor has strong public support, according to a major YouGov/Fabian equality poll of 3000 people.

The Independent carries a report on the key health findings of the equality poll.

The findings come as new Health Secretary Alan Johnson has placed narrowing health inequalities at the top of his agenda in his first major speech, including adopting the Fabian call for additional financial support to improve nutrition for pregnant women.

A Fabian Health Inequalities Forum will be launched this Autumn to influence the future health inequalities strategy, and to seek to make this a central theme of the NHS's 60th anniversary year in 2008. The forum is kindly supported by Sanofi-Aventis.

• The Fabian Equaliy poll was carried out by YouGov with a sample of 3,000 people in the UK. The survey was carried out online. Fieldwork dates: 3-8 August 2007. The results were weighted and are representative of all British adults. The poll was carried out for the forthcoming Fabian publication The Equality Challenge by Tom Hampson and Rachael Jolley. The Fabian equality project research is kindly supported by the Barrow Cadbury Trust, the Disability Rights Commission and the Commission for Racial Equality.