|
|
Article: Book examines health and the "income inequality" hypothesis.
- Article from:
- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- March 22, 2004
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2004 NewsRX. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
2004 MAR 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Over the last decade, the proposition that inequality in income - and not just poverty per se - leads to detrimental health consequences has gained increasing currency in public health circles.
This belief has become a popular topic within schools of public health, scholarly journals, and health philanthropies, and has surfaced in political discussions and in the popular media both in the United States and abroad.
This newly fashionable "inequality hypothesis" predicts that the risk of illness rises importantly in a society with income disparities. Indeed, it implies that redistributing wealth from the rich to ...