Fighting Inequalities in Health and Income: One Important Road to Welfare and Social Development

Johan Fritzell and Olle Lundberg

Chapter 7 in Social Policy and Economic Development in the Nordic Countries, 2005, pp 164-185 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The micro-level relationship between poverty and economic resources in general, on the one hand, and health, on the other, has a long history. A famous example from the past is Friedrich Engels The Condition of the Working Class in England (Engels 1969/1845). Today, there is still a clear relationship between economic resources and health, even in the Nordic welfare states (Rahkonen et al. 2000; Fritzell, Nermo and Lundberg 2004). In addition, it has been claimed that public health is better in countries and communities characterized by a more egalitarian distribution of income and wealth (Wilkinson 1992, 1996), although this claim has been debated (Kawachi and Kennedy 1999; Lynchet al. 2000; Marmot and Wilkinson 2001; Mackenbach 2002).

Keywords: Income Inequality; Income Distribution; Welfare State; Economic Resource; Health Inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230523500_7

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