HLTH 101 Lecture 9: Health week 9 lec: Income Inequality
12 Dec 2017
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Wherever we look richer people are healthier and live longer disability free lives. Rich people are doing better than poor people. Individuals: neighbourhoods, within countries, rich countries have better health outcomes, between countries. The extent to which income is distributed. Other person in the same society could make 150,000. Canada in relation to other high-income countries tax more therefore inequalities are reduced. Income inequalities in low / middle income countries: yes, both rich and poor countries have inequalities. Evidence from usa cities with low income mortality rates were high cities with better income mortality rates were low. Wilkinson"s hypothesis in more unequal societies, people don"t trust each other as much. More crime in these unequal environments foundations: social capital theory, criminology, animal experiments smaller monkeys were more stressed than larger monkeys cause they couldn"t compete for food as well. Problem with animal experiments: depends on availability of water and food. If there is more food there is less competition.
