Why better income equality brings better health for all

Gilly Cooper and Chris BurgessEquality West Midlands

Slide courtesy of Danny Dorling, author of ‘Injustice’, ‘No Nonsense Guide to Equality’, et al.

United Kingdom

Slide courtesy of Danny Dorling, author of ‘Injustice’, ‘No Nonsense Guide to Equality’, et al.

Maps of Inheritance Tax vs Antidepressant use (Britain

2008)

Slide courtesy of Danny Dorling. Maps from ‘Bankrupt Britain’ Atlas

More inequality

• More superiority and inferiority• More status competition and consumerism

• More status insecurity

• More worry about how we are seen and judged

• More “social evaluation anxiety”(threats to self-esteem & social

status, fear of negative judgements)

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