Health Disparity

Studies are suggesting that relative poverty and processes of social comparison explain the high stress burden of individuals in countries with a big gap between the rich and the poor. This high stress is the biological pathway through which rank ot hierarchy factors influence health and cause disease.

USA's Rank in Health Olympics:

• Life Expectancy: 29
• Teen Birth: 28
• Educational Opportunities: 21
• Child Poverty: 25
• Child Abuse Death Rates: 26
• Child Injury Death Rates: 23