The association between income and life expectancy revisited: deindustrialization, incarceration and the widening health gap | Zendy

Elias Nosrati | Zendy; Michael Ash | Zendy; Michael Marmot | Zendy; Martin McKee | Zendy; Lawrence King | Zendy

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The association between income and life expectancy revisited: deindustrialization, incarceration and the widening health gap

Author(s) -

Elias Nosrati,

Michael Ash,

Michael Marmot,

Martin McKee,

Lawrence King

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyx243

Subject(s) - deindustrialization , life expectancy , quartile , demographic economics , demography , health and retirement study , public health , economics , confidence interval , gerontology , population , medicine , sociology , economy , nursing

The health gap between the top and the bottom of the income distribution is widening rapidly in the USA, but the lifespan of America's poor depends substantially on where they live. We ask whether two major developments in American society, deindustrialization and incarceration, can explain variation among states in life expectancy of those in the lowest income quartile.

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