John Lynch
George Davey Smith
Jim Dunn
Sam Harper
Nancy Ross
Michael Wolfson

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Abstract
We examined the concordance of income inequality trends with 30-year US regional trends in cause-specific mortality and 100-year trends in heart disease and infant mortality. The evidence suggests that any effects of income inequality on population health trends cannot be reduced to simple processes that operate across all contexts and in all time periods. If income inequality does indeed drive population health, it implies that income inequality would have to be linked and de-linked across different time periods, with different exposures to generate the observed heterogeneous trends and levels in the causes of mortality shown here.

Author's affiliation
John Lynch
University of Michigan Ann Arbor, United States of America
George Davey Smith
University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Jim Dunn
St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada
Sam Harper
University of Michigan Ann Arbor, United States of America
Nancy Ross
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Michael Wolfson
Statistics Canada, Canada

Keywords
cause-specific mortality, income, income inequality, mortality, population health, trends, USA

Word count (Main text)
8950

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