There is a growing body of empirical evidence to suggest that the way a society distributes its wealth affects the health of its people -independent of how wealthy a society is in absolute terms. In this paper, we review the current thinking about how income dispersion and mortality might be...

The major objective of this study was to examine the utilization of publicly funded palliative care services in the Vancouver region by adult residents of Vancouver, in the one prior to their death. In particular the intent of this study was to: -determine the proportion of terminally ill...