The influence of income on health: views of an epidemiologist.

By Michael Marmot. Health Affairs, 2002

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Food consumption trends and drivers (2010, background): “It may also be that income is causally related to health through its effect on social participation and the opportunities to control life’s circumstances (Marmot 2002).”
Eight Americas: Investigating Mortality Disparities across Races, Counties, and Race-Counties in the United States (2006, background): “Important research in the past few decades has illustrated the critical role of individual and community-level socioeconomic factors, be it in absolute or relative terms, in health outcomes [11,24,37,38].”
Social sources of racial disparities in health. (2005, background): “Whether measured by income, education, or occupation, socioeconomic status (SES) is a strong predictor of variations in health.(3) Americans with low SES have levels of illness in their thirties and forties that are not seen in groups with higher SES until three decades of age later.”
Income inequality and health: what have we learned so far? (2004, background): “It is by now widely accepted that income poverty is a risk factor for premature mortality and increased morbidity ( 4 ).”