Chen Mei-shia, executive director of the Taiwan Association for Promoting Public Health and a professor of public health at National Cheng Kung University, says that research from around the world on the subject of health disparities shows a strong link between socioeconomic status and personal health: the lower people ’ s socioeconomic standing, the poorer their health.
台灣公共衛生促進協會（衛促會）理事長、成功大學公衛所教授陳美霞也指出，綜合世界各國有關健康不平等的研究，所歸納出來的結論是 — — 社經地位與個人健康密切相關，社經地位越低，健康狀況越差。