The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost always do Better

By R. Johnston. 2009

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Subfields: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Speech and Hearing

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Changing lives? Desistance research and offender management (2010, background): “Of course, it is inequality and the social injustice that it represents that so often underlies not just crime and offending but a host of other social problems (Wilkinson, 2005; Wilkinson and Pickett, 2009).”
Social exclusion and mental health – how people with mental health problems are disadvantaged: an overview (2011, background): “Over the past 20 years has been the increasing awareness that whilst poverty is directly related to poor health (including mental health), in rich countries it is the inequalities of income within these countries that are most strongly related to life expectancy and levels of morbidity, mortality an”
The Concept of Subjective Well-being in Housing Research (2017, unknown): “Contemporary work, Wilkinson and Pickett (2009) follows Elstad (1998) in focusing on the emotive aspects of the measures, suggesting that an essential quality of subjective well-being is the importance of avoiding shame (Lundberg et al., 2009), which has a strong link to mental ill-health and…”
Human Capital and Sustainability (2011, background): “, they can be directly attributable to changing public policies, especially those related to taxation [105].”
Transforming Cultures: From Consumerism to Sustainability (2010, background): “Recent research (Wilkinson and Pickett 2009) also shows that societies that are more equitable have less violence, better health, higher literacy levels, lower incarceration rates, less obesity, and lower levels of teen pregnancy—all substantial bonus dividends that would come with cultivating this…”