Does inequality make us sick? Whether, and (if so) how, income inequality affects personal health University of Antwerp
It is an established fact that the level of ones income affects ones health. More divisive, however, is the question whether peoples health is also affected by inequalities in income. The latter would imply that not only how much income we have matters for health, but also how much more or less we have of it compared to others. If this is the case, one of the farreaching consequences would be that the benefits that we believe economic growth is ...