Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: More privatisation

[Joel Blau <jblau@xxxxxxxxx>]

Doug:

Well, if Jencks has concluded that, ask him about  research such as "Ichiro Kawachi et al, "Social Capital, Income Inequality, and Mortality" The American Journal of Public Health 87 (9): 1491-1497 & Richard Wilkerson (another article in the same journal) that reaches the opposite conclusion.

Joel Blau

Doug Henwood wrote:

Bill Burgess wrote:

>As it happens I am doing something very similar, as part of an
>effort to figure out why personal income _inequality_ is strongly
>(negatively) related to (age-adjusted) mortality rates in US cities,
>but not in Canadian cities. In other words, do more -- and more
>equal -- public goods in Canadian cities (schools, transit,
>libraries, sewers, etc.) mitigate some of the negative effects of
>personal income inequality that prevail in the US?  (Of course,
>personal income itself is also strongly negatively related to
>mortality, but an additional? inequality effect seems to apply over
>the range of income.)
>
>BTW, some good recent work on the relation of income inequality and
>mortality is by Australian epidemiologist John Lynch. He offers a
>"neo-material" explanation for this relation in place of some of the
>'social capital' ideas (trust, cohesion, civic participation, etc.)
>recently discussed on Pen-L.
>
>If anyone is working on similar points, please contact me to compare notes.

My beloved's uncle is Christopher Jencks. I hear that Jencks is
currently working on the relation between income distribution and
health indicators, and is finding that it doesn't exist. He hasn't
published anything yet, and I haven't had the chance to talk to him
about it, but I'm going to get on the case very soon.

Doug