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The Impact of Inequality
How to Make Sick Societies Healthier
In this book, pioneering social epidemiologist Richard Wilkinson, shows how inequality affects social relations and well-being. In wealthy countries, health is not simply a matter of material circumstances and access to health care; it is also how your relationships and social standing make you...
Published June 8th 2005 by Routledge
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Unhealthy Societies
The Afflictions of Inequality
Among the developed countries it is not the richest societies which have the best health, but those which have the smallest income differences between rich and poor. Inequality and relative poverty have absolute effects: they increase death rates. But why? How can smaller income differences raise...
Published September 11th 1996 by Routledge