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Nancy Krieger <[log in to unmask]> on 03/14/2002 12:37:54 PM



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          Dennis Raphael/Atkinson)



 Subject: [spiritof1848] Article: Policy Implications Of The
          Gradient Of Health And Wealth (fwd)








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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 11:16:25 -0500
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Subject: Article: Policy Implications Of The Gradient Of Health And Wealth

Policy Implications Of The Gradient Of Health And Wealth

An economist asks, would redistributing income improve population health?

Angus Deaton
Health Affairs, March/April 2002

Available at: http://130.94.25.113/freecontent/s6.htm
<http://130.94.25.113/freecontent/s6.htm>  or


<http://130.94.25.113/readeragent.php?ID=/usr/local/apache/sites/healthaffai
rs.org/htdocs/Library/v21n2/s6.pdf>
http://130.94.25.113/readeragent.php?ID=/usr/local/apache/sites/healthaffair
s.org/htdocs/Library/v21n2/s6.pdf

".........Men in the United States with family incomes in the top 5 percent
of the distribution in 1980 had about 25 percent longer to live than did
those in the bottom 5 percent.Proportional increases in income are
associated with equal proportional decreases in mortality throughout the
income distribution. The author discusses possible reasons or this gradient
and ask whether it calls or the redistribution of income in the interest of
public health.I argue that the existence of the gradient strengthens the
case or income redistribution in favor of the poor but that targeting health
inequalities would not be sound policy......"





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