political spectrum wanted mortality and healthcare to be distributed more evenly among the rich and poor than they estimated …

What effect does rising income inequality have on mortality rates in developed countries? In particular, does the rise … of the super-wealthy or the top 0.01% of the population effect overall health of the population? This paper focuses on … the effect of rising income inequality on mortality rates of men and women in a subset of OECD countries over six decades …

effect of income inequality on mortality rates for men and women in a subset of OECD countries over nearly six decades from … 1950–2008. Using adult mortality rates at aged sixty-five as the outcome measure of mortality, the latest available data on … the relationship. The findings show that income inequality has a negative effect on mortality rates for both men and women …

income, relative income (i.e. how individual income compares to those of peers), individual health, and relative health … contribute to these inequalities. The analysis focuses on the population aged 50 and over, using data from the ‘Survey of Health …, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe’ and the ‘Health and Retirement Study’ for the US. All countries display some socioeconomic …

life", such as health and equality of opportunity. However, per capita GDP has the virtues of easy interpretation and can … preserves the advantages of per capita GDP, but also includes health and equality. We propose a new parsimonious indicator to …

unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health … distributions is ignored. -- Income ; health ; global distribution ; inequality ; poverty …