health & inequality

2001-03-05 Thread Keaney Michael
Jim Devine wrote: This article appeared in NEWSWEEK? what's the world coming to? socialist or social-democratic ideas in NEWSWEEK? = It's true, at least to a certain extent. Support for Gore doesn't count for much but there has been other material of late which contrasts favourably to the

Re: RE: Re: health & inequality

2001-03-02 Thread Jim Devine
Stephen Bezruchka, M.D. wrote: >Today, at No. 1, Japan has a life expectancy on average three and a half >years longer than the United States'. Twice as many Japanese men as >American men smoke, yet the deaths attributable to smoking are half of >ours. Why? After the second world war, the hiera

Re: Re: Re: Re: health & inequality

2001-03-02 Thread Marta Russell
This may already have been posted but I recommend Leslie Doyle, The Political Economy of Health. It is mostly related to Britain but does focus on capitalism. marta Bill Burgess wrote: > > sorry, try > http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/319/7215/953/DC1 (BMJ 1999, 319) > If it doesn't work go

Re: Re: Re: health & inequality

2001-03-01 Thread Bill Burgess
sorry, try http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/319/7215/953/DC1 (BMJ 1999, 319) If it doesn't work go to bmj.com (British Medical Journal) and look under income inequality At 08:40 PM 01/03/2001 -0800, you wrote: >This URL seems to be wrong. > > > The non-linear effect is examined by Wolfson et

Re: Re: health & inequality

2001-03-01 Thread Michael Perelman
This URL seems to be wrong. Bill Burgess wrote: > The non-linear effect is examined by Wolfson et al. at > http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/319/7215/953/DC1At. Their modeling > suggests it is not responsible for the observed relation between inequality > and health in the US. > > Bill > > 01:

RE: Re: health & inequality

2001-03-01 Thread Forstater, Mathew
Copyright 2001 Newsweek >Newsweek > >February 26, 2001 > >US MY TURN > > > Is Our Society Making You Sick? > >By Stephen Bezruchka, M.D. > >Americans are obsessed with health. Just look at today's magazines, TV >shows, Web sites, self-help books--and where we put our dolla

Re: health & inequality

2001-03-01 Thread Bill Burgess
The non-linear effect is examined by Wolfson et al. at http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/319/7215/953/DC1At. Their modeling suggests it is not responsible for the observed relation between inequality and health in the US. Bill 01:54 PM 01/03/01 -0500, you wrote: >Doug, > I have not du