ArticleAmerican journal of public health1999
Income inequality and homicide rates in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Article in American journal of public health, 1999. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Is income inequality a determinant of population health? Part 1. A systematic review.The Milbank quarterly · 2004Pooled it
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- Mortality among adults: gender and socioeconomic differences in a Brazilian city.BMC public health · 2012Article
- Reduction of social inequalities in life expectancy in a city of Southeastern Brazil.International journal for equity in health · 2011Article
- Losses of expected lifetime in the United States and other developed countries: methods and empirical analyses.Demography · 2011Article
- Income inequality and mortality: importance to health of individual income, psychosocial environment, or material conditions.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2000Review
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Abstract
objectivesThis study determined the effect of income inequality on homicide rates in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
methodsWe conducted an ecological study at 2 geographical levels, municipalities in the state of Rio de Janeiro and administrative regions in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro. The association between homicide and income inequality was tested by multiple regression procedures, with adjustment for other socioeconomic indicators.
resultsFor the municipalities of Rio de Janeiro State, no association between homicide and income concentration was found an outcome that can be explained by the municipalities' different degrees of urbanization. However, for the administrative regions in the city of Rio de Janeiro, the 2 income inequality indicators were strongly correlated with the outcome variable (P < .01). Higher homicide rates were found precisely in the sector of the city that has the greatest concentration of slum residents and the highest degree of income inequality.
conclusionsThe findings suggest that social policies specifically aimed at low-income urban youth, particularly programs to reduce the harmful effects of relative deprivation, may have an important impact on the homicide rate.
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