Income inequality and mortality: importance to health of individual income, psychosocial environment, or material conditions

By J. Lynch, George Davey Smith, G. Kaplan, J. House. British medical journal, 2000

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Health

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The persistence of health inequalities in modern welfare states: the explanation of a paradox. (2012, background): “The ‘neo-materialist theory’ emphasizes the fact that despite increases in average prosperity and some redistribution inequalities in access to material resources are still universal, and still generate health inequalities (Davey Smith et al., 1994; Lynch et al., 2000).”
Income inequality and health: a causal review. (2015, background): “…between income inequality and health reflects people's lack of resources, as well as societal underinvestment in such things as “education, health services, transportation, environmental controls, availability of food, quality of housing, [and] occupational health regulations” (Lynch et al., 2000).”
Mental health, resilience and inequalities (2009, background): “Some of the factors to consider in assessing the significance of mental health relative to other influences are evident in reflecting on a familiar scenario: the long haul flight (Lynch et al 2000).”
Adolescents' perceptions of social status: development and evaluation of a new indicator. (2001, methodology): “address the need for a youth-specific indicator subjective social status, we modified the MacArthur Scale of Subjective Social Status to be applicable to adolescents.”
Economic burden of occupational injury and illness in the United States. (2011, background): “Finally, numerous studies link poverty and income inequality to health (Lynch et al. 2000).”
Place effects on health: how can we conceptualise, operationalise and measure them? (2002, background): “Inequality and the social environment: a reply to Lynch et al. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 54, 411–413. Wolch, J., & Philo, C. (2000). From distributions of deviance to definitions of difference: past and future mental health geographies.”