Income and mortality in the United States
- 9 November 1996
- Vol. 313 (7066), 1206-1207
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.313.7066.1206c
Abstract
# Incomes should have been adjusted in the two studies {#article-title-2} EDITOR,—Whether inequalities in the distribution of income in advanced industrial societies are associated with average levels of population health is a contentious issue.1 The papers by George A Kaplan and colleagues and Bruce P Kennedy and colleagues seem to support the view that some indicators of income inequality are correlated with mortality, at least in the United States.2 3 Given that the United States is the most inegalitarian of the richest industrial nations, such findings are …Keywords
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