Open AccessIncome Inequality and Mortality in US Counties: Does Minority Racial Concentration Matter?
Author(s) -
Diane K. McLaughlin,
C. Shan Stokes
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.92.1.99
Subject(s) - inequality , economic inequality , demography , metropolitan area , mortality rate , race (biology) , health equity , demographic economics , geography , medicine , economics , public health , sociology , mathematics , gender studies , mathematical analysis , archaeology , nursing
This study examined (1) the relationship between income inequality and mortality among all counties in the contiguous United States to ascertain whether the relationships found for states and metropolitan areas extend to smaller geographic units and (2) the influence of minority racial concentration on the inequality-mortality linkage.