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The spirit level : why greater equality makes societies stronger
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The strong version of Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett's argument in The Spirit Level implies that President Obama's fight to reform health care was pointless as discussed by the authors, and that extending the availability of health insurance cannot substantially improve Americans’ health.Abstract:
The strong version of Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett’s argument in The Spirit Level implies that President Obama’s fight to reform health care was pointless. Extending the availability of health insurance cannot substantially improve Americans’ health. Instead, the president would make us all happier, healthier, and longer-lived, their logic suggests, if he could get the richest, say, 5 percent of Americans to leave the country.read more
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Inclusive Growth: Beyond Safety Nets?
TL;DR: In this paper, the emphasis on processes of growth, and hence livelihoods, employment and entrepreneurship, rather than re-distributing the benefits of growth is crucial in this.
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Fundamental Interventions: How Clinicians Can Address the Fundamental Causes of Disease
TL;DR: This work describes fundamental cause theory and how it makes the social causes of disease and health visible, and outlines the sorts of “fundamental interventions” that physicians might make in order to address the fundamental causes.
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Characteristics of US Counties with No Mammography Capacity
Lucy A. Peipins,Jacqueline W. Miller,Thomas B. Richards,Janet Kay Bobo,Ta Liu,Mary C. White,Djenaba A. Joseph,Florence K. L. Tangka,Donatus U. Ekwueme +8 more
TL;DR: Assessment of nationwide capacity at state and county levels from 2003 to 2009 found that mammography capacity was not distributed equally across counties within states and that more than 27 % of counties had zero capacity.
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Income Inequality and White-on-Black Racial Bias in the United States: Evidence From Project Implicit and Google Trends
TL;DR: Evidence of a significant positive within-state association between income inequality and Whites’ explicit racial bias is found, but the effect was small and was also contingent on model specification, with results dependent on the measure of income inequality used.
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"We Look (and Feel) Better Through System-Justifying Lenses": System-Justifying Beliefs Attenuate the Well-Being Gap Between the Advantaged and Disadvantaged by Reducing Perceptions of Discrimination.
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that ethnic minorities and women generally report lower levels of well-being than do New Zealand Europeans and men, respectively, but these differences were mitigated by the endorsement of ethnic- and gender-specific system justification, respectively.
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Happiness: Lessons from a New Science
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Disease and Disadvantage in the United States and in England
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Social Trust and Fractionalization: A Possible Reinterpretation
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Do Neoliberal Economic Policies Kill or Save Lives
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