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Richard Wilkinson

- Verified email at york.ac.uk - Cited by 69438

Robert Wilkinson

- Verified email at imperial.ac.uk - Cited by 43637

Income inequality and population health: a review and explanation of the evidence

RG Wilkinson, KE Pickett - Social science & medicine, 2006 - Elsevier
Whether or not the scale of a society's income inequality is a determinant of population health
is still regarded as a controversial issue. We decided to review the evidence and see if we …

Income inequality and health: a causal review

KE Pickett, RG Wilkinson - Social science & medicine, 2015 - Elsevier
There is a very large literature examining income inequality in relation to health. Early
reviews came to different interpretations of the evidence, though a large majority of studies …

The immune response in tuberculosis

…, FW McNab, CI Bloom, RJ Wilkinson… - Annual review of …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
There are 9 million cases of active tuberculosis reported annually; however, an estimated
one-third of the world's population is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis and remains …

[PDF][PDF] The spirit level

R Wilkinson, K Pickett - Why equality is better for everyone, 2010 - academia.edu
Wilkinson and Pickett draw on research from many different contexts that shows how more
rigid distinctions in social status play out on both psychological and social levels in ways that …

[BOOK][B] Social determinants of health

M Marmot, R Wilkinson - 2005 - books.google.com
… that were first published as The solid facts (Wilkinson and Marmot 1998). An important …
We were therefore requested to produce a second edition (Wilkinson and Marmot 2003). In …

[BOOK][B] The spirit level: Why greater equality makes societies stronger

R Wilkinson, K Pickett - 2011 - books.google.com
… As citizens, we may feel that inequality on this scale cannot possibly be good for us, and
Wilkinson and Pickett supply the evidence that confirms our gut sense of unease. Such …

[BOOK][B] Unhealthy societies: the afflictions of inequality

RG Wilkinson - 2002 - taylorfrancis.com
… Leon, DA and Wilkinson, RG Inequalities in prognosis: socioeconomic differences in cancer
and heart disease survival. In: Health inequalities in European countries. Edited by AJFox.…

[BOOK][B] Social determinants of health: the solid facts

RG Wilkinson, M Marmot - 2003 - books.google.com
… I should like to express my gratitude to Professor Richard Wilkinson and Professor Sir
Michael Marmot, who edited the publication, and to thank all the members of the scientific team …

An interferon-inducible neutrophil-driven blood transcriptional signature in human tuberculosis

…, KA Wilkinson, R Banchereau, J Skinner, RJ Wilkinson… - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
Tuberculosis (TB), caused by infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is a major cause of
morbidity and mortality worldwide. Efforts to control it are hampered by difficulties with …

The osteological paradox: problems of inferring prehistoric health from skeletal samples [and comments and reply]

…, EA Roth, DH Ubelaker, RG Wilkinson - Current …, 1992 - journals.uchicago.edu
Paleodemography and paleopathology presuppose that direct relationships exist between
statistics calculated from archaeological skeletal series (eg, skeletal lesion frequencies and …