health can affects human abilities, functions and even his life quality, and hence has important role in determination of human capital through production processes. the aim of this study is to examine the effect of income inequality on selected health indices in iran during 1976-2007. in this study an attempt has been made to analyze the relationship between income inequality and the both of l...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relation between health outcomes and the equality with which income is distributed in the United States. DESIGN The degree of income inequality, defined as the percentage of total household income received by the less well off 50% of households, and changes in income inequality were calculated for the 50 states in 1980 and 1990. These measures were then examined in re...

BACKGROUND Relationships between income inequality and various health indicators have been the subject of much study and some controversy. We investigated associations between child mortality and income inequality amongst the wealthier OECD countries as well as changes in their relative child mortality rankings over time. METHODS Data were drawn from the 2003-2006 'State of the World's Childr...

A number of studies have found that mortality rates are positively correlated with income inequality across the cities and states of the US. We argue that this correlation is confounded by the effects of racial composition. Across states and Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs), the fraction of the population that is black is positively correlated with average white incomes, and negatively cor...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To determine the association of regional income inequality within New Zealand with mortality among 25-64 year olds. DESIGN Individual census and mortality records were linked over the 1991-94 period. Income inequality (Gini coefficients) and average household income variables were calculated for 35 regions. "Individual level" variables were sex, age, ethnicity, household incom...

STUDY OBJECTIVE This study was designed to discover whether the relation between income inequality and population death rates within the United States was mediated by the degree of residential segregation between rich and poor. DESIGN Using data for 276 metropolitan areas in the USA, residential segregation was defined as the extent to which people with different levels of income live in the ...

OBJECTIVES We used census data to examine associations between income inequality and mortality among US states for each decade from 1949 to 1999 and tax return income data to estimate associations for 1989. METHODS Cross-sectional correlation analyses were used to assess income inequality-mortality relationships. RESULTS Census income analyses revealed little association between income ineq...

OBJECTIVE To report on the extent of inequality in premature mortality as measured between geographical areas in Britain. DESIGN Observational study of routinely collected mortality data and public records. Population subdivided by age, sex, and geographical area (parliamentary constituencies from 1991 to2007, pre-1974 local authorities over a longer time span). SETTING Great Britain. PAR...

BACKGROUND This paper evaluates claims in a recent study that inequalities in small area mortality rates have lessened. We examine the effect of differently estimated populations on time trends in age-specific mortality rates for Yorkshire and the Humber and East of England. METHODS Populations were estimated for wards using four methods that introduce increasing amounts of information. Age-s...

OBJECTIVES This study assessed whether income inequality and primary care physician supply have a different effect on mortality among Blacks compared with Whites. METHODS We conducted a multivariate ecologic analysis of 1990 data from 273 US metropolitan areas. RESULTS Both income inequality and primary care physician supply were significantly associated with White mortality (P < .01). Afte...