publication . Article . Other literature type . 2007

Unpacking Income Inequality and Population Health: The Peculiar Absence of Geography

Name: Unpacking Income Inequality and Population Health: The Peculiar Absence of Geography
Keywords: Article, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Medicine

James R. Dunn; Peter Schaub; Nancy A. Ross;

Open Access English

Published: 01 Jul 2007

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Summary

Abstract

BACKGROUND: A large and growing body of literature investigating the negative relationship between income inequality and population health (at different geographic scales) has developed over the past several years, although the relationship is not universal apparently. We argue that there has been a peculiar absence of geography in studies of the relationship between income inequality and population health and that explanations for the mixed results have been hampered by an inattention to geography. METHODS: Using methods of spatial pattern visualization, outlier analysis and comparative case study analysis, we investigate the role of “geography” as a means of “...

Persistent Identifiers

doi: 10.1007/bf03403722

pmc: PMC6976138

pmid: 18047156

Subjects

free text keywords: Article, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Medicine, Inequality, media_common.quotation_subject, media_common, Personal income, Negative relationship, Demographic economics, Population, education.field_of_study, education, Population health, Context (language use), Public health, medicine.medical_specialty, medicine, Economic inequality

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