Abstract
Abstract Poorer people tend to have worse health and shorter lives than richer ones, which raises the question of whether the relationship is causal. Does bad health lead to economic inequality or vice versa? And is increasing inequality responsible for widening socio-economic disparities in health status? What policies can break these links? This commentary takes the positive relationship between health and income as a given and explores what we know about these questions. I conclude that bad health causes economic inequality, but whether economic inequality harms health depends on the policy environment. There is much that governments can do and have done to improve the health of the poor and flatten the relationship between income, income inequality, and health.
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