Income inequality and health: a causal review.

By K. Pickett, R. Wilkinson. Social Science & Medicine (1967), 2015

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Health

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The psychological consequences of income inequality (2017, background): “Residents of countries with higher income inequality tend to have worse health (reviewed in Wilkinson & Pickett, 2006; Pickett & Wilkinson, 2015; but see Beckfield, 2004).”
The enemy between us: The psychological and social costs of inequality (2017, background): “(K. E. Pickett & Wilkinson, 2007, 2015a; Unicef, 2016) Educational attainment is higher, fewer young people drop out of education, and fewer teenage girls become mothers in more equal societies.”
Social Determinants of Health (2018, neutral): “Wilkinson has argued that overall, people living in countries with less inequality are more healthy [7,8].”
Social impacts of climate change mitigation policies and their implications for inequality (2019, background): “…recognized as a barrier to economic growth and political stability (Dabla-Norris, Kochhar, Suphaphiphat, Ricka, & Tsounta, 2015; OECD, 2015; Pickett & Wilkinson, 2015; Piketty, 2014; Stiglitz, 2015), international development (Ramos Pinto, 2013) and greater climate ambition (Klinsky &…”
Clarifying the Concept of Well-Being: Psychological Need Satisfaction as the Common Core Connecting Eudaimonic and Subjective Well-Being (2019, background): “For example, factors such as societal inequality, fairness, and justice have been argued to be important to such approaches to wellness (Pickett & Wilkinson, 2015; Prilleltensky, 2012).”
Why Income Inequality Is Dissatisfying—Perceptions of Social Status and the Inequality-Satisfaction Link in Europe (2019, background): “If this is the case, income inequality increases the salience of and the identification with socio-economic status characteristics, and individuals will regard these characteristics as more important when evaluating their lives and overall well-being (Wilkinson and Pickett, 2006, 2009; Pickett and W”
Individuals, interactions and institutions: How economic inequality affects organizations (2015, background): “Nevertheless, it is fair to conclude (based on over 300 peer-reviewed studies) that the relationship between high levels of income inequality and poor health has met the epidemiological criteria for causality (i.e. consistency, temporality, consideration of alternative explanations and biological pl”