State income inequality, household income, and maternal mental and physical health: cross sectional national survey

State income inequality, household income, and maternal mental and physical health: cross sectional national survey.

OBJECTIVE To examine the association of state income inequality and individual household income with the mental and physical health of women with young children. DESIGN Cross sectional study. Individual level data (outcomes, income, and other sociodemographic covariates) from a 1991 follow up survey of a birth cohort established in 1988. State level income inequality calculated from the incom...

Relations of income inequality and family income to chronic medical conditions and mental health disorders: national survey.

OBJECTIVES To analyse the relation between geographical inequalities in income and the prevalence of common chronic medical conditions and mental health disorders, and to compare it with the relation between family income and these health problems. DESIGN Nationally representative household telephone survey conducted in 1997-8. SETTING 60 metropolitan areas or economic areas of the United S...

Income inequality and mental health problems.

Pickett & Wilkinson’s paper is the latest in a series of persuasive publications on income inequality and health stretching back to the 1990s. However, in relation to what they variously call ‘mental illness’, ‘mental health problems’ and ‘distress’, I wonder whether they are taking at face value the highly inflated prevalence findings they cite. They write that ‘one million British children – ...

Income inequality and mental health problems

Pickett & Wilkinson’s paper is the latest in a series of persuasive publications on income inequality and health stretching back to the 1990s. However, in relation to what they variously call ‘mental illness’, ‘mental health problems’ and ‘distress’, I wonder whether they are taking at face value the highly inflated prevalence findings they cite. They write that ‘one million British children – ...

Income Inequality and Household Debt