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Dennis Raphael <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 08:30:09 -0500

SDOH-Listserv Bulletin No. 2, February 2, 2004
Income and Health: Theories, Evidence and Debates

This Bulletin is available as a Word File at
http://quartz.atkinson.yorku.ca/QuickPlace/draphael/Main.nsf/
Please forward this Bulletin to potentially interested parties.

In this Bulletin, I present some recent information concerning income and income distribution, and information on their effects upon health. This Bulletin does not specifically address issues of poverty, but poverty is clearly implicated in this material. It also doesn't cover in detail, policy responses to income inequality. This will be the subject of later SDOH Bulletins.

You will also note that there is little discussion of the economic and social forces that create income inequality and greater numbers of low income people in the first place. For example, the USA has the second highest per capital GDP (Luxembourg is first), but one of the highest rates of absolute and relative poverty and the greatest proportion of low-income wage earners among developed nations. The political economy of income and
wealth inequalities is the subject of a later Bulletin.

Finally, income is the subject of attention in Canada and Australia while socioeconomic position [class?] is the favoured variable in UK and Finnish studies. Some argue that use of class measures open up analyses to the role played by social structure and a myriad of issues that income simply doesn't capture. Another topic for further discussion later!

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