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Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, December 3rd, 2007
A new study, 'The problems of relative deprivation: why some societies do better than others,' is now available. According to recent research published in the journal Social Science & Medicine, "In this paper, we present evidence which suggests that key processes of social status differentiation, affecting health and numerous other social outcomes, take place at the societal level. Understanding them seems likely to involve analyses and comparisons of whole societies."
"Using income inequality as an indicator and determinant of the scale of socioeconomic stratification in a society, we show that many problems associated with relative deprivation are more...
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