TABLE 1.

Correlations Among Income Inequality, Trust, Public Health Expenditures, and Population Health: 33 Countries, 2005–2008

	Income Inequality	Trust	Public Health Expenditures	Healthy Life Expectancy	Adult Mortality
Income inequality	NA
Trust	–0.51**	NA
Public health expenditures	–0.45*	0.12	NA
Healthy life expectancy	–0.74**	0.48**	0.34	NA
Adult mortality	0.55**	–0.47**	–0.13	–0.92	NA

Note. Partial correlations shown, with control for country differences in per capita income. The 33 countries that provided the sample population are Australia, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Latvia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

*P < .05; **P < .01.