Does living in an unequal society make people unhappy? Not necessarily, reveals the largest study ever conducted on the ...

Health and medicine is more than just biological—societal forces can get under your skin and cause illness. Medical ...

How long Americans can expect to live varies dramatically -- and the gap continues to widen. A new report says health inequalities have, in essence, created 10 Americas. These mutually exclusive ...

Examines the role of social determinants of health in creating health inequalities/health disparities in the United States. Based on extensive research by a wide variety of academics, public health ...

Cardiovascular disease remains a major concern in cities, with poor outcomes and high societal cost often driven by unequal ...

If you live in Fresno, it is hard to find a doctor or enter a hospital bed because the city has lower ratios of these health-care services than other regions. These disparities in access to care ...

A scientific certainty put to the testFor decades, a consensus seemed established in the scientific literature: economic inequality harms the ...

Lunch lady economics: why feeling poor hurts like being poor -- Relatively easy: why we can't stop comparing ourselves to others -- Poor logic: inequality has a logic of its own -- The right, the left ...

Does living in an unequal society make people unhappy? Not necessarily, reveals the largest study ever conducted on the ...