Managed Care Cast: Assessing the Association Between Income Inequality and Health

The conversation around income inequality exploded in recent decades as the gap between the rich and working-class continues to widen. Health economics and outcomes research (HEOR) and care delivery professionals have likewise paid increasing attention to the impact of social determinants of health (SODH). The impact of income inequality and health outcomes is explored in the latest episode of the Managed Care Cast.

According to, “On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with Hui Zheng, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Ohio State University and co-author of ‘Rising Childhood Income Inequality and Declining Americans’ Health.’ The American Journal of Managed Care® sat down with Zheng to learn more about how income inequality has shifted throughout the 20th and 21st centuries and the potential implications of this shift, along with some solutions to the problem. “

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(Source: AJMC, May 31^st, 2022)