Why better income equality brings better health final vs2 27 06 2012
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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)
Valued or Devalued?