ArticleAmerican journal of public health2008
Income inequality and socioeconomic gradients in mortality.
Article in American journal of public health, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03436706 (Pre-adolescent Stress and Health Study), which is not on this map. Cited by 60 papers.
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objectivesWe investigated whether the processes underlying the association between income inequality and population health are related to those responsible for the socioeconomic gradient in health and whether health disparities are smaller when income differences are narrower.
methodsWe used multilevel models in a regression analysis of 10 age- and cause-specific US county mortality rates on county median household incomes and on state income inequality. We assessed whether mortality rates more closely related to county income were also more closely related to state income inequality. We also compared mortality gradients in more- and less-equal states.
resultsMortality rates more strongly associated with county income were more strongly associated with state income inequality: across all mortality rates, r= -0.81; P=.004. The effect of state income inequality on the socioeconomic gradient in health varied by cause of death, but greater equality usually benefited both wealthier and poorer counties.
conclusionsAlthough mortality rates with steep socioeconomic gradients were more sensitive to income distribution than were rates with flatter gradients, narrower income differences benefit people in both wealthy and poor areas and may, paradoxically, do little to reduce health disparities.
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