Imprisonment and (inequality in) population health

Imprisonment and (inequality in) population health.

This article extends research on the consequences of mass imprisonment and the factors shaping population health and health inequalities by considering the associations between imprisonment and population health-measured as life expectancy at birth and the infant mortality rate-and black-white differences in population health using state-level panel data from the United States (N=669), 1980-200...

Socioeconomic Inequality in Health Literacy, Self-Rated Health, and General Health in Arak, Iran: a Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study

Aims: Socioeconomic inequalities are major problems for public health in the communities. This study aimed to determine the socioeconomic inequality of health literacy (HL), self-rated health (SRH), and general health. Instrument & Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed in Arak city, Iran, in 2019. The Wealth index was created using the principal component analysis (PCA) based on pa...

Imprisonment in Australia: The Remand Population

Growing Inequality: Bridging Complex Systems, Population Health and Health Disparities

I sometimes ponder on the practical effect of the many words written on ‘public health’. And then I wonder, perhaps uncharitably, how many are merely a re-hash of what has already been said. So when a new book had not one, but four, concepts in the title, I was tempted to think that there might be something new, perhaps at the intersection of the four. Or was it another re-working of current kn...

Health inequality and population variation in fertility-timing.

We estimate the impact of fertility-timing on the chances that children in poor urban African American communities will have surviving and able-bodied parents until maturity. To do so, we use census and vital statistics data to compute age- and sex-specific rates of mortality and functional limitation among prime-aged adult residents of impoverished African American areas in Harlem, Detroit, Ch...