Department of Public Administration and Sociology, Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Postbus 1738, 3000 DR, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, Barnett House, 32 Wellington Square, Oxford, OX1 2ER, United Kingdom.
Health Place. 2020 Mar;62:102276. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2019.102276. Epub 2019 Dec 26.
Individuals do not possess an entirely accurate assessment of the level of income differences in their society and so changes in quantitative measures of income inequality may not always align with changes in the perceptions of income inequality. This disconnect is partly driven by how people form their opinions about the level of inequality. In this study we explore whether there is an association between perceptions of inequality and health, and if so, how it differs depending on the specific channel through which people formed their opinions about changes in income inequality. Drawing on data from 31 European and Eurasian countries, we find that both men and women are more likely to report bad health when their perceptions of increasing inequality are formed through experiences of inequality in their communities than through media and other channels.
个人对其所在社会的收入差异水平并没有一个完全准确的评估，因此收入不平等的定量衡量标准的变化并不总是与收入不平等观念的变化一致。这种脱节部分是由于人们形成对不平等程度的看法的方式所致。在这项研究中，我们探讨了对不平等的看法与健康之间是否存在关联，如果存在，那么这种关联在多大程度上取决于人们形成对收入不平等变化看法的具体渠道。我们利用来自 31 个欧洲和欧亚国家的数据发现，当男性和女性通过社区不平等经历而不是通过媒体和其他渠道来形成对不平等加剧的看法时，他们更有可能报告健康状况不佳。
