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| Income inequality and mortality in England | | Author(s) | Debbie Stanistreet, Alex Scott-Samuel, Mark A Bellis |
| Journal title | Journal of Public Health Medicine, vol 21, no 2, June 1999 |
| Pages | pp 205-207 |
| Keywords | Poverty ; Income [older people] ; Death rate [statistics] ; Socio-economic groups ; Population statistics ; England. |
| Annotation | Despite the increasing evidence that income inequality causes reductions in life expectancy in developed countries, this relationship has not been explored in the UK, where income data are not routinely available. For this study, an ecological design was used which applies national income data to local mortality and occupational data. 1991 mortality and Census data on the 366 English local government districts and 1991 New Earnings Survey (NES) data for England were used, to determine the independent effect of income inequalities within English local authorities on the variation in all cause mortality between them. Subjects were all men and women recorded as economically active in the 1991 Census. Linear regression analyses were carried out between all cause, all ages standardised mortality ratios, income inequality indexes and mean income levels of the local government districts. Both income inequality and mean income were independently associated with mortality. It is likely that income inequality makes an independent contribution to life expectancy in England. This finding adds further to the international evidence supporting the potentially positive health impact of increasing the scale of redistributive fiscal policies. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990818211 A |
| Classmark | W6: JF: S5: T4: S4: 82 |
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