Special Collection 2 - Article 8 | Pages 183–228
US regional and national cause-specific mortality and trends in income inequality: descriptive findings
| Date received: | 17 Feb 2003 |
| Date published: | 16 Apr 2004 |
| Word count: | 8950 |
| Keywords: | cause-specific mortality, income, income inequality, mortality, population health, trends, United States of America |
| DOI: | 10.4054/DemRes.2004.S2.8 |
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, United States of America
Sam Harper - University of Michigan, United States of America
George Davey Smith - University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Nancy Ross - McGill University, Canada
Michael Wolfson - University of Ottawa, Canada
Jim Dunn - St. Michael's Hospital, Canada
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