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Health and wealth disparities in the United States / Anupam B. Jena, Tomas J. Philipson, Eric C. Sun.
- Title
- Health and wealth disparities in the United States / Anupam B. Jena, Tomas J. Philipson, Eric C. Sun.
- Author
- Jena, Anupam B.
- Publication
- Washington, D.C. : AEI Press ; Lanham, Md. : Distributed by Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, c2010.
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- Description
- ix, 68 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "In this volume, Anupam B. Jena, Tomas J. Philipson, and Eric C. Sun formally incorporate the effects of health into an analysis of economic disparities in America from 1940 to 2000. They find that accounting for the value of health dramatically affects our understanding of wealth levels across groups--particularly across races. The income levels of blacks and whites followed a convergent trend until the 1970s, after which the rate of convergence slowed and even reversed slightly, suggesting that blacks' rate of economic progress has dwindled. However, when health gains are incorporated, the picture changes significantly. Black men and women made much faster improvements in health than white men and women over this sixty-year period. Therefore, although black and white incomes have not converged fully, the overall disparity decreases when health is incorporated into the analysis. Jena, Philipson, and Sun conclude that even if income disparities remain vast across groups, disparities in general welfare may be shrinking as minorities and poorer populations see significant improvements in health--a finding that has important policy implications for the design of programs aimed at equalizing income across the U.S. population." --From publisher description.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Electronic books.
- Statistics
- Medical statistics
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Health and wealth disparities in the United States : a brief overview of the literature -- Historical evolution of health and wealth disparities -- Valuing improvements in health -- Health and the evolution of economic disparities.
- ISBN
- 9780844743899 (pbk.)
- 0844743895 (pbk.)
- 9780844743905 (ebook)
- 0844743909 (ebook)
- LCCN
- ^^2010025618
- OCLC
- 643443164
- SCSB-10499241
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library