Word: kawachi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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 the caffeine in coffee has been shown to energize, relax and elevate the mood of the consumer...
...Kawachi attributes the results to the energizing ability of caffeine...
...Kawachi says his group of researchers decided to replicate the experiment for a more specific focus on the effects of coffee on suicide...