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The global impact of income inequality on health by age
— an observational study | | Author(s) | Danny Dorling, Richard Mitchell, Jamie Pearce |
| Journal title | British Medical Journal, vol 335 no 7625, 27 October 2007 |
| Pages | pp 873-875 |
| Source | http://www.bmj.com |
| Keywords | Poverty ; Health [elderly] ; Death rate [statistics] ; Age group distribution statistics ; Developing countries ; International. |
| Annotation | The apparent impact of income inequality on health has been shown for wealthier nations, and is now explored as to whether this impact is replicated worldwide and varies by age. The authors outline an observational study of 126 countries for which complete data on income inequality and mortality by age and sex were available around the year 2002 (including 94.4% of the world population). Data on mortality were from the World Health Organization (WHO), and income data were taken from the annual reports of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). At ages 15-29 and 25-39, variations in income inequality seem more closely correlated with mortality worldwide than do variations in material wealth. This relation is especially strong among the poorest countries in Africa. Mortality is higher for a given level of overall income in more unequal nations. Income inequality seems to have an influence worldwide, especially for younger adults. Social inequality seems to have a universal negative impact on health. This article is an abridged version of a paper that was published on bmj.com on 22 October 2007. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-071030201 A |
| Classmark | W6: CC: S5: S6: 7B: 72 * |
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