Living in community with income inequality may affect health

Living in an area having a high level of income inequality – whether people are low-income or high-income – appears to negatively impact health, according to a new report.

S V Subramanian, professor of population health and geography in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, was quoted March 31, 2015 in the New York Times about the report.

Read the New York Times article: Income Inequality: It’s Also Bad for Your Health