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TY - JOUR
T1 - Economic relationships and health inequalities
T2 - improving public health recommendations
AU - Sayer, A.
AU - McCartney, G.
N1 - This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Public Health. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Public Health, 199, 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2021.08.017
PY - 2021/10/31
Y1 - 2021/10/31
N2 - Policy recommendations, which aim to reduce health inequalities in society, often focus upon improving the incomes, working conditions and physical environments of the most deprived groups. We agree with these recommendations but argue that they are insufficient to reduce health inequalities because they fail to address the economic relationships between social groups that lead to health inequalities and which perpetuate them over time. A comprehensive programme to reduce health inequalities will require policies that address the numerous ways in which economic resources flow from poorer groups to richer groups through the design of the economy. In this commentary we describe key economic relationships between social groups that lead to inequalities, namely rent, interest, capital gains, profit, monopoly and speculation. Addressing these causes of economic inequality in recommendations to reduce health inequalities should be considered by future research in this area.
AB - Policy recommendations, which aim to reduce health inequalities in society, often focus upon improving the incomes, working conditions and physical environments of the most deprived groups. We agree with these recommendations but argue that they are insufficient to reduce health inequalities because they fail to address the economic relationships between social groups that lead to health inequalities and which perpetuate them over time. A comprehensive programme to reduce health inequalities will require policies that address the numerous ways in which economic resources flow from poorer groups to richer groups through the design of the economy. In this commentary we describe key economic relationships between social groups that lead to inequalities, namely rent, interest, capital gains, profit, monopoly and speculation. Addressing these causes of economic inequality in recommendations to reduce health inequalities should be considered by future research in this area.
KW - Economics
KW - Health inequalities
KW - Policy
KW - Recommendations
KW - article
KW - economic inequality
KW - economics
KW - human
KW - profit
KW - public health
U2 - 10.1016/j.puhe.2021.08.017
DO - 10.1016/j.puhe.2021.08.017
M3 - Journal article
VL - 199
SP - 103
EP - 106
JO - Public Health
JF - Public Health
SN - 0033-3506
ER -