The influence of income on health: views of an epidemiologist

M Marmot - Health affairs, 2002 - healthaffairs.org
Income is related to health in three ways: through the gross national product of countries, the
income of individuals, and the income inequalities among rich nations and among …

Is income inequality a determinant of population health? Part 1. A systematic review

J Lynch, GD Smith, SAM Harper… - The Milbank …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
This article reviews 98 aggregate and multilevel studies examining the associations
between income inequality and health. Overall, there seems to be little support for the idea …

Education and health: evaluating theories and evidence

DM Cutler, A Lleras-Muney - 2006 - nber.org
There is a large and persistent association between education and health. In this paper, we
review what is known about this link. We first document the facts about the relationship …

Urban residential environments and senior citizens' longevity in megacity areas: the importance of walkable green spaces

T Takano, K Nakamura, M Watanabe - Journal of Epidemiology & …, 2002 - jech.bmj.com
Study objectives: To study the association between greenery filled public areas that are
nearby a residence and easy to walk in and the longevity of senior citizens in a densely …

The determinants of mortality

D Cutler, A Deaton, A Lleras-Muney - Journal of economic perspectives, 2006 - aeaweb.org
The pleasures of life are worth nothing if one is not alive to experience them. Through the
twentieth century in the United States and other high-income countries, growth in real …

Gender differences in health: a Canadian study of the psychosocial, structural and behavioural determinants of health

M Denton, S Prus, V Walters - Social science & medicine, 2004 - Elsevier
Gender-based inequalities in health have been frequently documented. This paper
examines the extent to which these inequalities reflect the different social experiences and …

[PDF][PDF] Socioeconomic position

JW Lynch, GA Kaplan - 2000 - deepblue.lib.umich.edu
The relationship between the socioeconom-ic position of individuals and populations and
their health is well established—the socioeconomically better-off doing better on most …

Optimal indicators of socioeconomic status for health research

GJ Duncan, MC Daly… - American journal of …, 2002 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. In this study we examined the relationship between indicators of socioeconomic
status (SES) and mortality for a representative sample of individuals. Methods. The sample …

Income and health: the time dimension

M Benzeval, K Judge - Social science & medicine, 2001 - Elsevier
It is widely recognised that poverty is associated with poor health even in advanced
industrial societies. But most existing studies of the relationship between the availability of …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding and reducing socioeconomic and racial/ethnic disparities in health

BD Smedley, SL Syme - Promoting health: Intervention strategies …, 2000 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The initial paper by Kaplan and colleagues and the burgeoning literatures on
socioeconomic and racial/ethnic disparities in health establish that such disparities are …