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Income inequality and health: a causal review.
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A literature review within an epidemiological causal framework and inferred the likelihood of a causal relationship between income inequality and health (including violence) by considering the evidence as a whole is inferred.About:
This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 2015-03-01. It has received 1217 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Income distribution & Population health.read more
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The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States, 2001-2014
Raj Chetty,Michael Stepner,Sarah Abraham,Shelby Lin,Benjamin Scuderi,Nicholas Turner,Augustin Bergeron,David M. Cutler +7 more
TL;DR: In the United States between 2001 and 2014, higher income was associated with greater longevity, and differences in life expectancy across income groups increased over time, however, the association between life expectancy and income varied substantially across areas; differences in longevity acrossincome groups decreased in some areas and increased in others.
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Life Expectancy and Mortality Rates in the United States, 1959-2017
TL;DR: US life expectancy increased for most of the past 60 years, but the rate of increase slowed over time and life expectancy decreased after 2014, with the largest relative increases occurring in the Ohio Valley and New England.
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The Spirit Level: why equality is better for everyone
TL;DR: The Spirit Level: why equality is better for everyone, edited by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, London, Penguin, 2010, 368 pp., £7.99, ISBN 9780141032368 I once submitted an article to an Amer...
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Income inequality and depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the association and a scoping review of mechanisms.
Vikram Patel,Jonathan K. Burns,Monisha Dhingra,Leslie Bishop Tarver,Brandon A. Kohrt,Crick Lund +5 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that policy makers should actively promote actions to reduce income inequality, such as progressive taxation policies and a basic universal income, as well as promote the delivery of interventions which target the pathways and proximal determinants.
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Gender equality in science, medicine, and global health: where are we at and why does it matter?
Geordan Shannon,Melanie Jansen,Kate Williams,Carlos F. Caceres,Angélica Motta,Aloyce Odhiambo,Alie Eleveld,Jenevieve Mannell +7 more
TL;DR: This Review presents a high-level synthesis of global gender data, summarise progress towards gender equality in science, medicine, and global health, review the evidence for why gender Equality in these fields matters in terms of health and social outcomes, and reflect on strategies to promote change.
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The Logic of Scientific Discovery
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Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-analytic Review
TL;DR: In a meta-analysis, Julianne Holt-Lunstad and colleagues find that individuals' social relationships have as much influence on mortality risk as other well-established risk factors for mortality, such as smoking.