Income Inequality as a Public Health Concern: Where Do We Stand? Commentary on “Is Exposure to Income Inequality a Public Health Concern?”

Research interest on the link between income distribution and population health can be traced back to Richard Wilkinson's seminal paper published in 1992 in the British Medical Journal, showing a correlation between income inequality and life expectancy among nine industrialized countries Ten years on, despite dozens of papers published on this topic, the issue continues to be debated. Is income inequality a public health concern? A growing number of studies argue that it is not.