LSE Inequalities | Inequality has a profoundly negative effect on health and wellbeing, write Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett. Not because it suddenly kills, but because it slowly reshapes how people live, relate, cope, and age. Rather than behaving like a toxin that produces a sudden spike in mortality after a fixed incubation period, inequality is more like a fog that gradually seeps into bodies, relationships, and institutions over time.

Source: LSE Inequalities.