The strongest evidence is a case where material life improved and health got worse. The post-war boom raised real incomes across the Western democracies and put refrigerators and televisions in ordinary homes for the first time, reducing absolute material deprivation, and over the same period the mortality disadvantage of blue collar workers actually increased in several countries. Absolute gain with relative loss produced a health decline, which no material account predicts. Part I draws the right conclusion: further growth can adversely affect a society's health if it happens alongside widening income inequality.

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the mortality disadvantage of blue collar workers actually increased in several countries.[^171] This data suggests that further economic growth and improving living standards can actually adversely affect societal health, if that growth takes place in an environment with increas

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