Abstract:

The relationship between the public health status and income inequality

has been taken into consideration in the last two decades. One of the important

questions in this regard is that whether the changes in income inequality will lead

to changes in health indicators or not. To answer this question, life expectancy is

used as a health indicator and the Gini coefficient is used as an income inequality

indicator. In this study, the relationship between income inequality and the public

health has been investigated by panel data in Eviews software during 2000

–2011in 65 low-and middle-income countries. By using panel data and considering fixed

effects and heterogeneity of sections, the relationship between income inequality

and public health status is a significant negative relationship.