Policy implications of the gradient of health and wealth.

By Angus Deaton. Health Affairs, 2002

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Why the Poor Get Fat: Weight Gain and Economic Insecurity (2009, background): “A number of authors report a strong positive relationship between income and various measures of good health (see, e.g., Marmot et al . 1991, Case et al . 2002, or Deaton 2002 ).”
Disease and disadvantage in the United States and in England. (2006, background): “The influence of inequality in economic resources on health remains controversial.(24,25) Income inequality is indeed much higher in the United States than in England,(26) but the rapidly increasing levels of inequality in the United States do not appear to have had a dramatic effect on the health o”
Social sources of racial disparities in health. (2005, background): “At the same time, although it is generally recognized that policies that disproportionately assist the disadvantaged are desirable, it is unclear whether those policies are best implemented at the federal, state, or local level and what optimal forms such policies should take.(42) Greater attention ”