According to this piece by Michael Marmot, there's research which shows that...
More deprivation in an area means worse health. Lower social position means worse health. Both are important. In fact, the two interact.Department of the bleedin' obvious? Maybe, but every time I post an item like this - one either directly or loosely concerning the harmful effects of sharp social inequalities on those at the worse end of them - I receive emails saying that this is not actually about capitalism as such. I'm happy to receive the emails, but on the basis of the various causal relationships in evidence, what they need to do to be persuasive, or so it seems to me, is to try and unpick the relationship existing between capitalism and (massive) resource inequality.