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Income and Health Introduction
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Income and Health End note

Income and Health

Allison Quick and Richard Wilkinson's book Income and Health was the fourth of a series of five reports commissioned jointly by Ruskin College Oxford and the Socialist Health Association in 1984. It was published in 1991. The text is reproduced by permission and without amendment except that the footnotes have been inserted into the main body of the text and the 71 bibliographical references have been omitted.

Professor Wilkinson's later work is documented at the Equality Trust.

Introduction

Income and health: the evidence

Inequalities in health

How income affects health

Public health policies for the future

Reforming social security

Reforming taxation

Endnote