The paper addresses the issue of dynamic relationships between environment, health and growth. Its aim is to show that … improvement, due to sanitation and health infrastructures, possible because of income growth, leads to a better health, followed …, when pollution, generated by a growth too fast, becomes widespread by a worsening of health conditions, coming finally to …

. The period is characterized by very slow improvements in real average incomes, and by a significant increase in inequality … and poverty levels. These changes are in contrast to what seems to have taken place in Italy as a whole, at least until … 2006. Finally, we focus on a subjective measure of income poverty and on the role played by immigrants in shaping these …