Policy Implications Of The Gradient Of Health And Wealth
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- 1 March 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Health Affairs (Project Hope) in Health Affairs
- Vol. 21 (2) , 13-30
- https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.21.2.13
Abstract
Men in the United States with family incomes in the top 5 percent of the distribution in 1980 had about 25 percent longer to live than did those in the bottom 5 percent. Proportional increases in i...Keywords
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