Income inequality and population health: a review and explanation of the evidence.

By R. Wilkinson, K. Pickett. Social Science & Medicine (1967), 2006

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Adverse childhood experiences and life opportunities: Shifting the narrative (2017, background): “…include psychosocial theories that focus on people’s perceptions and experiences of being in hierarchies and living in social settings of inequality (Wilkinson & Pickett, 2006); economic and political theories that focus on the impact of structural inequalities on health and disease (Kaplan,…”
Epidemiology of coronary heart disease and acute coronary syndrome. (2016, background): “Further, social inequalities increase CVD-mortality (12-14) and negative lifestyle influences such as increased physical inactivity in more “obesogenic” environment (14) are reverting the improvements in CVD data that were obtained in some countries (15).”
Understanding and representing 'place' in health research: a relational approach. (2007, methodology): “At the macro scale of country level analyses, a number of research studies reviewed by Wilkinson and Pickett (2006) have used statistical methods to explore how far overall variability in income and other aspects of socio-economic position in societies interacts with the individual association…”
Social capital and health in European welfare regimes: a multilevel approach (2007, background): “Previous studies have also shown that income inequality is associated with different aspects of health and well-being (see e.g. Kennedy et al., 1998; Wilkinson and Pickett, 2006).”
Relative Income and Happiness in Asia: Evidence from Nationwide Surveys in China, Japan, and Korea (2011, result): “This result is consistent with those from preceding studies in social epidemiology that address the negative association between self-rated health and income inequality, as surveyed by Subramanian and Kawachi (2004) and Wilkinson and Pickett (2006).”
Income Inequality and Social Dysfunction (2009, methodology): “Using data from a review of 168 analyses (Wilkinson & Pickett 2006), Figure 7 shows, by size of the units of observation, the proportion of analyses that were wholly supportive of an association and the proportion that were unsupportive (44 studies classified as having mixed results are excluded…”
Managing without growth (2008, background): “In their review of 168 analyses of the relationship between income inequality and health, Wilkinson and Pickett (2006) ‘suggest that inequality is related to health insofar as it serves as a measure of the extent of the same processes of class differentiation and social distances in a society which ”
Depression as a disease of modernity: explanations for increasing prevalence (2012, background): “Inequality has risen in modernized countries, and unequal societies tend to have lower overall health and higher levels of social distrust, competition, and status anxiety (Wilkinson and Pickett, 2006; Wilkinson et al., 2009).”
The enemy between us: The psychological and social costs of inequality (2017, background): “…2008; De Vogli, Mistry, Gnesotto, & Cornia, 2005; Hales, Howden-Chapman, Salmond, Woodward, & Mackenbach, 1999; Kondo et al., 2009; Ram, 2006; Subramanian & Kawachi, 2004; Wilkinson & Pickett, 2006, 2007) Rates of mental illness and obesity are two to four times higher in more unequal societies.”
Cross-national epidemiology of DSM-IV major depressive episode (2011, background): “A related argument is that income inequality, which is for the most part greater in high than low- to middle-income countries, promotes a wide variety of chronic conditions that includes depression [27].”
Americans overestimate social class mobility (2015, background): “As well, roughly 70% of studies examining the health impacts of economic inequality find that societal health worsens as economic inequality intensifies (Wilkinson & Pickett, 2006).”
Mental health, resilience and inequalities (2009, background): “These questions lie at the heart of current debates about the social determinants of health, the relative contribution of material, psycho-social and biological factors and the effects of inequalities (Lynch et al 2000; Wilkinson and Pickett 2006; Dahlgren and Whitehead 2006).”