title: Health policies and the relationships between socioeconomic status, access to health care, and health.
abstract: Health policies tend to focus on improving the access to health care of persons of low-socioeconomic status to improve their health. This commentary argues that health policies directly directed at health and socioeconomic status (and other components of individual welfare) will also be effective if one wants to improve the well-being of the poor.
authors.affiliation: Paris School of Economics - CNRS, 48, Boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, France. benedicte.apouey@psemail.eu.
authors.forename: Bénédicte H
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: Apouey