State minimum wage laws and newly diagnosed cases of HIV among heterosexual black residents of US metropolitan areas.

ABSTRACT: This ecologic cohort study explores the relationship between state minimum wage laws and rates of HIV diagnoses among heterosexual black residents of U.S metropolitan areas over an 8-year span. Specifically, we applied hierarchical linear modeling to investigate whether state-level variations in minimum wage laws, adjusted for cost-of-living and inflation, were associated with rates of new HIV diagnoses among heterosexual black residents of metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs; n=73), between 2008 and 2015. Findings suggest that an inverse relationship exists between baseline state minimum wages and initial rates of newly diagnosed HIV cases among heterosexual black individuals, after adjusting for potential confounders. MSAs with a minimum wage that was $1 higher at baseline had a 27.12%

SUBMITTER: Cloud DH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6287056 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature