Exam 5: Income, Inequality, and Health

In Canada, ________ have the highest child poverty rates.

How well supported by the evidence is the inequality hypothesis? In your answer, summarize the works of the key scholars, the major assumptions of the hypothesis, and the criticisms levelled against it.

A new government proposes changes to the tax system. Under the new system, the government will take the same per cent of everyone's income. This form of taxation is known as ________.

Residualism implies that ________.

Compare and contrast materialist, neo-materialist, and psychosocial theories of social inequalities in health. Using specific examples, explain how they would go about explaining health inequalities.

The Preston curve shows that ________.

According to the text, the rates of low income and poverty over the past 30 years have decreased for families of young children, young single adults, and people with limited education and job skills.

Among the liberal regime countries, taxation and the distribution of benefits through public programs is most progressive in the United States.

While a materialist theorist would probably argue that health inequities will decrease under a more progressive tax system, a scholar working under psychosocial framework may contend that such a taxation system will not make much difference.

________ is NOT one of the features of neo-liberalism.

In Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States, income taxes are progressive, albeit more so in Canada than in the US.

From his findings, Preston (1975) concluded that total income and average income matter most in poorer places but the distribution of available income matters more in affluent ones.

When several predictive variables are highly correlated with one another, making it difficult to ascertain the relative importance of each, the problem is referred to as ________.

What is the most commonly used measure of inequality? What does it say about inequality in OECD countries and Canada?

A new government proposes changes to the tax system. Under the new system, the government will take a larger proportion of a higher income than of a lower one. This form of taxation is known as ________.

What are the major differences between psychosocial and materialist theories in explaining health inequalities?

In his theorizing, Richard Wilkinson drew from the research of ________.

The Preston curve shows a ________.