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Economic inequality and population health
— looking beyond aggregate indicators | | Author(s) | Petri Böckerman, Edvard Johansson, Satu Helakorpi |
| Journal title | Sociology of Health & Illness, vol 31, no 3, April 2009 |
| Pages | pp 422-440 |
| Source | http://www.blackwellpublishing.com |
| Keywords | Health [elderly] ; Income [older people] ; Poverty ; Wealth ; Correlation ; Indicators ; Finland. |
| Annotation | The sensitivity of various health indicators to income inequality as measured by regional Gini coefficients was studied, using individual microdata from Finland over the period 1993-2005. There is no overall association between income and health at the regional level. The authors discovered that, among men, there are no significant associations between income inequality and several measures of health status. Among women or among both sexes combined, there are some indications of associations in the predicted direction between income inequality and physical health, disability retirement, sick leave, and consumption of medicines, but none are robust to different model specifications. Only among populations aged under 30 is some indication that mental health is associated with inequality. These findings confirm that income inequality in small populations (not large enough to measure the overall class pyramid of the society) is often immaterial for health outcomes. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090701221 A |
| Classmark | CC: JF: W6: W7: 49: 3RI: 76L |
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