An important presentation of some key issues that are NOT discussed in the
USA and elsewhere...
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THE POLITICS OF HEALTH INEQUALITIES RESEARCH IN THE UNITED STATES
Vicente Navarro

International Journal of Health Services, Volume 34, Number 1, Pages 87–99,
2004

In this article, based on a speech to the European Association of Health
Policy, the author discusses the political context in which health
inequalities
research has historically operated in the United States. The discussion
focuses on the limitations of research that uses income, consumption, and
status as
the primary categories of research practice, and demonstrates these
limitations by critically analyzing The Health of Nations (by Kawachi and
Kennedy). The author concludes that it is essential to use categories of
analysis that focus on class relations as well as race and gender relations
and
their reproduction through the international and national institutions, to
study their impact on the health and well-being of populations.