收入不平等对人口健康影响的研究综述

自1970年代以来,西方学者从理论假设和实证研究两个角度对收入不平等对于人口健康产生的影响进行了深入而广泛的研究,采用跨国数据进行的研究基本上证实了收入不平等对于人口健康产生的不利影响,而采用跨地区数据以及个人数据进行的研究得出的结论则不尽一致.本文主要从理论假设、实证研究和影响途径三个角度对收入不平等对于人口健康的相关研究进行梳理和归纳,以期对我国的相关研究有所启示.

Literature Review on Influence of Income Inequality on Health

Western scholars have made comprehensive and in-depth studies on the influence of income inequality on health with theoretical hypothesis and empirics perspectives since 1970s.Such researches based on cross-country data have confirmed the negative influence of income inequality on health and those based on the cross-region data in one country and personal data have not reached agreement.This paper tries to survey these studies from theory hypothesis,empirics and influence path to help related domestic researches.