Query Re Inequality and Health Study

[Fellows, Jeffrey]

I will have an opportunity to look it up after Jan 5. If anyone has the
reference at hand I would like to get it as well. In the research on
inequality and health the impact to the well-to-do, or at least to the
middle class is usually couched in terms of the tax burden of health care to
the poor, or possibly productivity losses from working class folks with
higher adverse health risks. It is not obvious to me how the rich might
otherwise be affected, at least to the extent that one would find it
worthwhile to develop preventive interventions. Sure if I am rich and walk
into a room with TB sufferers I might have a problem, but what are the
chances that I'd be in such a room (or a subway, etc.). Insofar as the link
between inequality and health requires some sort of transmission mechanism,
the ability of rich folks to avoid these mechanisms imply the health burden
of inequality must be more indirect (i.e., via the pocketbook).  

Jeff
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Henry Rosenberg [mailto:rad at gte.net]
Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 1998 11:16 AM
To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
Subject: Query Re Inequality and Health Study

Three weeks ago I remember hearing (on this list?  on Pacifica? ITN?)
about a study of over 100 cities studying the correlation between income
inequality (I believe) and health.  The findings indicated that
inequality was not just bad for those on the bottom, but for the entire
population, including those at the top.  

I thought I had saved the cinfo on where this came from, but I've been
unable to find it, and web searches so far have drawn a blank.

Can anyone help me on this?

-- 
Paul Rosenberg
Reason and Democracy
rad at gte.net

 
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