November 28, 2003
As the Rich Get Richer, Do People Get Sicker?
Researchers debate whether income inequality impairs public healthRobin Hood is alive and well in academe, in the form of an epidemiologist who works on the outskirts of Sherwood Forest.
Richard G. Wilkinson, a professor at the University of Nottingham, in England, took up the brigand's cloak 11 years ago when he reported that public health suffers where large gaps exist between rich and poor. In a study of nine developed countries -- Australia, Canada, the United States, and
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