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Edited by Ichiro Kawachi, Bruce P. Kennedy, and Richard G. Wilkinson. 501 pp., illustrated. New York, New Press, 1999. $40 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). ISBN 1-56584-526-9 (cloth); 1-56584-571-4 (paper).

According to the United Nations Human Development Report published in 1996, the 358 richest persons on earth control assets equivalent to the annual income of 45 percent of the world's population. In the United States, the top 1 percent of income earners receives 12 percent of the entire country's pretax income and holds 37 percent of the wealth. At the same time, evidence is accumulating that disparities in income have profound social consequences and that the social and economic structure of a society may fundamentally determine the health of its members. The Society and Population Health Reader provides the reader . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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