The Health and Wealth of Nations
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چکیده
People who live in richer countries live longer than people who live in poor countries. Over the last century and half, or perhaps longer, income and longevity have increased together in the now rich countries, so that people got healthier as they got wealthier. Within both rich and poor countries, people who are richer live longer. Why is there such a close correlation between wealth and health, and why does it matter? One reason to care about health and wealth is that it changes the way that we should think about poverty and deprivation. We are rightly concerned about poverty because we do not think that people should have too little income to meet basic necessities or to live a decent life. But the poor not only do not have enough money, they also have shorter lives, and lives that are more often diminished by sickness. They are poor not only in money, but also in health. If we are driven by humanitarianism, or by justice, to help the income-poor, those reasons have greater force once we realize that, taking income and health together, the poor are even poorer than we thought, and we, the rich, are richer than we thought.
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