Long-term association of economic inequality and mortality in adult Costa Ricans.

ABSTRACT: Despite the large number of studies, mostly in developed economies, there is limited consensus on the health effects of inequality. Recently a related literature has examined the relationship between relative deprivation and health as a mechanism to explain the economic inequality and health relationship. This study evaluates the relationship between mortality and economic inequality, as measured by area-level Gini coefficients, as well as the relationship between mortality and relative deprivation, in the context of a middle-income country, Costa Rica. We followed a nationally representative prospective cohort of approximately 16,000 individuals aged 30 and over who were randomly selected from the 1984 census. These individuals were then linked to the Costa Rican National Death Registry u

SUBMITTER: Modrek S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3259853 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature