Population health in an era of rising income inequality: USA, 1980–2015

Income inequality in the USA has increased over the past four decades. Socioeconomic gaps in survival have also increased. Life expectancy has risen among middle-income and high-income Americans whereas it has stagnated among poor Americans and even declined in some demographic groups. Although the...

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Published in:	The Lancet (British edition) Vol. 389; no. 10077; pp. 1475 - 1490
Main Authors:	Bor, Jacob, Cohen, Gregory H, Galea, Sandro
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	England Elsevier Ltd 08.04.2017 Elsevier Limited
Subjects:	Absenteeism Adult African Americans Age Aged Antibodies Bacon Bankruptcy Children Cognitive ability Cohesion Control theory Convergence Cooperation Damage Demographics Demography Demography - trends Divergence Drug abuse Economic analysis Economic factors Economic models Education Falling Feedback Female Geriatrics Health disparities Health insurance Health services Health Status Disparities Hum Humans Imprisonment Income Income - statistics & numerical data Income - trends Income distribution Income inequality Income redistribution Internal Medicine Laws Life expectancy Life Expectancy - ethnology Life Expectancy - trends Life span Longevity Low income groups Male Middle Aged Mobility Mortality Negative feedback Older people Physical training Plague Population Health - statistics & numerical data Poverty Poverty - statistics & numerical data Poverty - trends Prisons Productivity Public health Risk analysis Risk factors Secondary schools Smoking Social Class Social factors Socioeconomic Factors Socioeconomics Survival Survival Analysis Technological change Trends United States - epidemiology Vegetables White people Widening Women United States > US
ISSN:	0140-6736, 1474-547X, 1474-547X
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