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Health economics

the proposition that individual health depends on one's own income with diminishing returns, so population health can vary with inequality through that curve alone.

In health economics, absolute income hypothesis refers to the proposition that individual health depends on one's own income with diminishing returns, so population health can vary with inequality through that curve alone. This meaning comes from Wagstaff (2000) in Annual Review of Public Health.[1]

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References

Wagstaff, A., & van Doorslaer, E. (2000). Income Inequality and Health: What Does the Literature Tell Us? Annual Review of Public Health, 21(1), 543-567. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.publhealth.21.1.543

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