Sick of Inequality?

Sick of Inequality?

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Bergh Andreas
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
EAN: 9781785364204
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There is a clear trend in rich countries that, despite rising incomes and living standards, the gap between rich and poor is widening. What does this mean for our health? Does increasing income inequality affect outcomes such as obesity, life expectancy and subjective well-being? Are rich and poor groups affected in the same ways? This book reviews the latest research on the relationship between inequality and health, and provides a pedagogical introduction to the tools and knowledge needed to understand and assess the vast literature on the subject.

The book includes discussion of the definitions and measurement of objective and subjective health and income inequality, and illustrates how various measures have been developed in different countries. Main conclusions from the literature are then summarized and discussed critically. It incorporates a substantial research overview of the field, as well as a detailed debate of the empirical challenges that arise during research. The book concludes that results are surprisingly contradictory, but that several studies have found that higher inequality is directly linked to lower subjective well-being.

Students and scholars in public health, social work, economics, and sociology will find this book an essential exposition of conceptual issues and empirical methods applied to the controversial topic of the health consequences of inequality.

EAN 9781785364204
ISBN 1785364200
Binding Hardback
Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Publication date August 26, 2016
Pages 168
Language English
Dimensions 216 x 138
Country United Kingdom
Readership Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Authors Bergh Andreas; Nilsson Therese; Waldenström, Daniel