a deeper level, however, pervasive poverty has contributed to poor health outcomes. The literature has found that … poverty and poor health outcomes are interrelated. Current institutional arrangements that limit economic development have … contributed to disproportionate poverty rates for Native Americans. Our recommendations for improving Native American healthcare …

focuses on economic equality as we seek to improve understanding of both the causes and effects of poverty in the context of …

most towns and cities in Ghana, selling of snacks and whole meals on the streets is an important way to obtain income …

affected as branded medicines are expensive and treatments involving the use of such medicines pushes them further into poverty …

There is a presumption that when an individual’s comparison of his income with the incomes of others in his comparison … income reflects better the adverse psychosocial effect of low relative income on health. Hounkpatin et al. pit against each …; and the “income rank position” of individual i, R i. In this Rejoinder we show that because a measure of rank is embodied …

Using data from the 2009 China Health and Nutrition Survey, this study investigates China's income-health gradient by … analyzing the effect of both current and long-term household income on 22 blood-based biomarkers, 4 used as individual variables … income-health gradient irrespective of whether the income measure is current or long term. Because risky behavior may …