Is income inequality a determinant of population health? Part 1. A systematic review.

By J. Lynch, G. Smith, S. Harper, M. Hillemeier, Nancy A. Ross, G. Kaplan, M. Wolfson. Milbank Quarterly, 2004

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Health

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Does income inequality cause health and social problems (2011, background): “Lynch et al. (2004) reviewed 98 aggregate and multi-level studies, examining the links between income inequality and health.”
Social Status and Health in Humans and Other Animals (2004, background): “This relationship seems not to hold as strongly, if at all, in more economically egalitarian European countries (Lynch et al. 2004).”
Income inequality and population health: a review and explanation of the evidence. (2006, methodology): “We hope that this interpretation may bring us closer to the thinking of others working in this field and narrow the area of controversy (Deaton, 2003; Lynch et al., 2004a, b).”
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”
Income inequality, unemployment, and suicide: a panel data analysis of 15 European countries (2005, background): “This finding is similar to that found in Neumayer (2003b). It is found that the Gini index variable is estimated with a positive coefficient for male and with a negative coefficient for female and is always found to be statistically insignificant.”
Social capital and health in European welfare regimes: a multilevel approach (2007, background): “However, the income inequality hypothesis has also been questioned (Lynch et al., 2004).”
Income inequality and health: a causal review. (2015, background): “Early reviews came to different interpretations of the evidence, though a majority of studies reported that health tended to be worse in more unequal societies (Lynch et al., 2004; Macinko et al., 2003; Subramanian and Kawachi, 2004; Wagstaff and van Doorslaer, 2000; Wilkinson and Pickett, 2006).”
Social Determinants of Health (2018, neutral): “The degree of income inequality within societies (the disparity between high and low incomes) has also been linked to poorer social capital and to health outcomes for some, although there is little evidence of consistent associations (Lynch et al. 2004).”
Inequality in Life Spans and a New Perspective on Mortality Convergence Across Industrialized Countries (2005, background): “Concrete evidence of a simple relationship is elusive, however, at least among advanced countries (Gravelle, Wildman and Sutton, 2002; Deaton, 2002; Lynch et al., 2004).”