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...Professor Ichiro Kawachi, induction into the Institute of Medicine is “like getting voted into the baseball hall of fame.” And this year, he’s far from alone at Harvard—which provided 11 of the IOM’s 65 new members announced this week...
...addition to Kawachi, Goldberg, Kohane, and Ruvkun, the Harvard professors recognized by the IOM include Sue J. Goldie, Daniel A. Haber, Joan Y. Reede, Clifford B. Saper, Megan Sykes, Bruce D. Walker, and Ralph Weissleder...
...This aggregate analysis gives us a sense that the growing gap in incomes is neither just a political nor economic problem--it's a significant public health problem," said Ichiro Kawachi, assistant professor of health and social behavior and a co-author of the study...
...Rather than looking at poverty per se, we were particularly interested in whether health status is affected by the relative wealth or deprivation in a population," Kawachi said. "We also looked at racial differences to see if mortality were influenced by race. We found that the problem of shortened lives, because of income inequality, potentially affects all U.S. citizens, not just the poor or historically undeserved groups such as African Americans...
...Kawachi says his group of researchers decided to replicate the experiment for a more specific focus on the effects of coffee on suicide...