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Quick A, Wilkinson
RG. Income and health. London: Socialist Health Association, 1991.
This book suggests that the most effective way of improving health is to make
incomes more equal, which is more important than providing better public services
or making everyone better off while
ignoring the inequalities between them.
Table of Contents
1. Income and health: the evidence
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International Comparisons
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Changes over time
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Population sub-groups
2. Inequalities in health
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Reducing health inequalities
3. How income affects health
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Not only the poor
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What are the links?
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Social relations
4. Public health policies for the future
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Focus on tax and benefits
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Dividing the cake
5. Reforming social security
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The Beveridge tradition
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Means-testing
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The future of social insurance
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The search for alternatives
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Marginal tax rates and the poverty gap
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Social dividends and negative income
tax
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Phasing in integration
Keywords
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gross national product
ealth inequalities
hierarchy
income
income distribution
income inequality
inequality
infant mortality
international
life expectancy
material deprivation
mental illness
mortality
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poverty
psychosocial factors
redistribution
relative deprivation
risk factor
social class
social cohesion
social stratification
socioeconomic status
stress
unemployment
wealth inequality
welfare
women
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