Income inequality: When wealth determines health.

HEALTH & income; INCOME inequality; PUBLIC health; LIFE expectancy; POVERTY & society

The article discusses the role of income as a social determinant of health in the U.S. Topics include the link between poor health and poverty, the results of a study published in the "Journal of the American Medical Association" regarding the gap in life expectancy between the poor and the rich and the growing problem of income inequality in the country.