Income inequality, democracy and health: A global portrait
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چکیده
Throughout the world there exists a notable relationship between income inequality and health. Political factors and circumstances, which arguably affect the distribution of income, may also be related to population health. This paper explores the geographic dimensions of these relationships in an attempt to determine whether or not levels of democracy complement, influence or confound the association between income inequality and health. This paper was prepared for presentation at the conference, Responding to Globalization: Societies, Groups and Individuals, sponsored by the Globalization and Democracy Research and Training Program, Program on Political and Economic Change, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, 4-7 April 2002. The data used in this paper are available via ftp at pacific.ssnet.ucla.edu/pub/tmp/shinm.
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