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The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century (2002) Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (HPDP) Institute of Medicine (IOM)

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Please note that the searchable text may be scanned, uncorrected text, and should be presumed inaccurate. Page images should be used as the authoritative version. Hits were found on pages: 59, 69 A total of 50 pages of uncorrected, machine-read text were searched in this chapter. 2 pages were identified which contain a total of 2 lines that match "egalitarian."

At the bottom of PAGE 59 ..., although some association may persist. This curvilinear association between income and health is what lays the framework for findings that more egalitarian societies (i.e., those with a less steep differential between the richest and the poorest) have better average health, because a dollar at the bottom ... At the bottom of PAGE 69 ... in states with the greatest income inequality were 1.25 times more likely to report being in fair or poor health than were those living in the most egalitarian states. The effect of income inequality was statistically significant and independent of absolute income levels....

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