"Health inequalities emerge where scroungers acquire power over producers, driving increasing exploitation. In racialised societies, symbolic categorisation is used to assign some individuals to low-rank producer roles, embedding exploitation in society. Efforts to reduce health inequalities must address whole of society, altering producer-scrounger dynamics rather than simply targeting resources at exploited groups”

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An evolutionary perspective on social inequality and health disparities:insights from the producer-scrounger game

Abstract. There is growing concern with social disparities in health, whether relating to gender, ethnicity, caste, socio-economic position or other axes of ine

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