Health inequality persists today, though our public health response—our modern Metropolitan Health Laws—must address more insidious causes and conditions of illness. There is a robust literature linking income inequality to health disparities—and thus widening income inequality is cause for concern. US...
Intersectionality of Income Inequality and Health The World Health Organization (1946) defines health as "a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." Social determinants of health can be described as conditions in the environment in...
We find that health disparities in China relate to rising income inequality and in particular to the adverse health and income experience of older (wo)men, but not to the growth rate of average incomes over the last decades. These findings suggest that replacement incomes and pensions at older...
The well-known Income Inequality Hypothesis suggests that income disparities in a country are detrimental for people's health. Empirical studies testing this hypothesis so far have found mixed results. In this study, we argue that a reason for these mixed findings may be that high national income...
Income inequality refers to the unequal distribution of income or wealth among individuals or groups. 收入不平等指的是收入或财富在个人或群体之间分配不平衡的现象。The issue is significant as it contributes to social and economic disparities , affecting access to education, healthcare, and social mobil...
Income disparities in healthcare use remain after controlling for healthcare need: evidence from Swedish register data on psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis.We used a southern Swedish cohort of psoriasis (PSO) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA) ... S Lfvendahl,A Jud,IF Petersson,... - 《European Jo...
To summarize, they raise three sets of arguments against the hypothesis: The association between income inequality and population health does not hold up after adjustment for individual-level income. The cross-sectional, aggregate-level ... I Kawachi,TA Blakely - 《Journal of Health Politics Policy...
Moreover, it is widely known that health disparities exist in regards to racial minorities. Relative to whites, African Americans have worse general and disease-specific HRQOL [25,26]. However, the association between smoking status and preference-based scores on HRQOL measures is not well ...
Governmental policies that promote income inequality must be acknowledged. Fiscal actions can improve income disparities. Universal health care could provide some increase in income equality. Improving the stability of other social programs such as Social Security and Medicaid could also relieve cost concer...
Although the United States is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, health disparities remain prevalent across the country. These disparities take form in various ways but most commonly involve geography, race and ethnicity, and wealth or income inequality. As the wealth gap in the United...