Using data from the second wave of the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS2), this
study analyses the relationship between in come inequality and self-rated individual health status controlling for other individual, household, and community health risk factors. The study finds that income inequality has no statistically significant detrimental effect on individual health. More importantly, this result is robust to both the difference in the distribution of public health provisions between areas of equal income distributions and those of less equal income distributions and the migration of people between them. Rather than income inequality, this study suggests that relative income has a stronger association with individual health.