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Cross-Temporal and Cross-National Poverty and Mortality Rates among Developed Countries

A prime objective of welfare state activities is to take action to enhance population health and to decrease mortality risks. For several centuries, poverty has been seen as a key social risk factor in these respects. Consequently, the fight against poverty has historically been at the forefront of...

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Autores principales: Fritzell, Johan, Kangas, Olli, Bacchus Hertzman, Jennie, Blomgren, Jenni, Hiilamo, Heikki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3690742/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23840235
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/915490
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author Fritzell, Johan
Kangas, Olli
Bacchus Hertzman, Jennie
Blomgren, Jenni
Hiilamo, Heikki
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description A prime objective of welfare state activities is to take action to enhance population health and to decrease mortality risks. For several centuries, poverty has been seen as a key social risk factor in these respects. Consequently, the fight against poverty has historically been at the forefront of public health and social policy. The relationship between relative poverty rates and population health indicators is less self-evident, notwithstanding the obvious similarity to the debated topic of the relationship between population health and income inequality. In this study we undertake a comparative analysis of the relationship between relative poverty and mortality across 26 countries over time, with pooled cross-sectional time series analysis. We utilize data from the Luxembourg Income Study to construct age-specific poverty rates across countries and time covering the period from around 1980 to 2005, merged with data on age- and gender-specific mortality data from the Human Mortality Database. Our results suggest not only an impact of relative poverty but also clear differences by welfare regime that partly goes beyond the well-known differences in poverty rates between welfare regimes.
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spelling pubmed-36907422013-07-09 Cross-Temporal and Cross-National Poverty and Mortality Rates among Developed Countries Fritzell, Johan Kangas, Olli Bacchus Hertzman, Jennie Blomgren, Jenni Hiilamo, Heikki J Environ Public Health Research Article A prime objective of welfare state activities is to take action to enhance population health and to decrease mortality risks. For several centuries, poverty has been seen as a key social risk factor in these respects. Consequently, the fight against poverty has historically been at the forefront of public health and social policy. The relationship between relative poverty rates and population health indicators is less self-evident, notwithstanding the obvious similarity to the debated topic of the relationship between population health and income inequality. In this study we undertake a comparative analysis of the relationship between relative poverty and mortality across 26 countries over time, with pooled cross-sectional time series analysis. We utilize data from the Luxembourg Income Study to construct age-specific poverty rates across countries and time covering the period from around 1980 to 2005, merged with data on age- and gender-specific mortality data from the Human Mortality Database. Our results suggest not only an impact of relative poverty but also clear differences by welfare regime that partly goes beyond the well-known differences in poverty rates between welfare regimes. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-06-09 /pmc/articles/PMC3690742/ /pubmed/23840235 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/915490 Text en Copyright © 2013 Johan Fritzell et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3690742/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23840235
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/915490
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