Projected health impact of the Los Angeles City living wage ordinance.

ABSTRACT:

Study objective

To estimate the relative health effects of the income and health insurance provisions of the Los Angeles City living wage ordinance.

Setting and participants

About 10 000 employees of city contractors are subject to the Los Angeles City living wage ordinance, which establishes an annually adjusted minimum wage (7.99 US dollars per hour in July 2002) and requires employers to contribute 1.25 US dollars per hour worked towards employees' health insurance, or, if health insurance is not provided, to add this amount to wages.

Design

As part of a comprehensive health impact assessment (HIA), we used estimates of the effects of health insurance and income on mortality from the published literature to construct a model to estimate and compare potential reduct

SUBMITTER: Cole BL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1733099 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature