RE: Re: Re: Income Inequality and Health

["Brown, Martin - ARP (NCI)" <mbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Those are usually studies looking at the relationship between individual
health and individual measures of race and income.  As I said "everyone"
accepts the strong relationship between individual income and health.  This
is something different - inequality (e.g. Gini or some other summary
measure) as a measure of social structure and mean level of individual
health.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Perelman [mailto:michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 7:48 PM
To: pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [PEN-L:16331] Re: Re: Income Inequality and Health


Fred Guy wrote:

>
> I'd say (2). Doesn't racism have effects on health status (through
> judgments made in health care, and perhaps through other routes - surely
I've
> read
> of big race-based differences in treatment for acute heart problems in the
US)?
>
> Racism and race relations in the US do take distinctive forms, and that
could
> well explain US exceptionalism on the [apparent] Wilkinson effect.

In other studies, inequality is a major factor, even after accounting for
race.

> As for
> (3), if
> percent black is knocking out direct measures of income inequality in
> the
> regression, then even if it were proxying for something else, that
> 'something
> else' is knocking out income inequality, which doesn't suggest support
> for the
> Wilkinson effect even in the US case.
>

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