SOCIAL EPIDEMIOLOGY Deeper and wider: income and mortality in the USA over three decades
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Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Hunter College, City University of New York, CUNY School of Public Health, New York, NY, USA, CUNY Institute for Demographic Research, New York, NY, USA, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA and Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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Deeper and wider: income and mortality in the USA over three decades.
BACKGROUND Literature on the socio-economic 'gradient' in health often asserts that income is associated with better health not only for the very poor, but also across the entire income distribution. In addition, changes in the shape of the association between incomes during a period of increasing economic inequality have not been previously studied. The goal of the current study was to estimat...
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