Reykjavík, Icelandmitigation of the health-income relationship has been the focus of large-scale and growing government expenditures in many countries. The scale of the expenditures involved, makes it an important subject to examine. In this paper we focus on the relationship between fluctuations in...

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Summary:Reykjavík, Icelandmitigation of the health-income relationship has been the focus of large-scale and growing government expenditures in many countries. The scale of the expenditures involved, makes it an important subject to examine. In this paper we focus on the relationship between fluctuations in cycles and health on the other hand. How those relate to one another is however not clear and has received limited attention. An overwhelming majority of studies indicate that high-income individuals possess better health than their low-income counterparts, although the causality of this relationship is still somewhat convoluted [1]. We know * Correspondence: ta@hi.iscare and prevention are multiple, but the reduction ofIntroduction: Health-income inequality has been the focus of many studies. The relationship between economic conditions and health has also been widely studied. However, not much is known about how changes in aggregate economic conditions relate to health-income inequality. Nevertheless, such knowledge would have both scientific and