Estimation of Potential Deaths Averted From Hypothetical US Income Support Policies.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Income has a negative, nonlinear association with all-cause mortality. Income support policies may prevent deaths among low-income populations by raising their incomes.

Objective

To estimate the deaths that could be averted among working-age adults age 18 to 64 years with hypothetical income support policies in the US.

Design setting and population

An open, multicohort life-table model was developed that simulated working-age adults age 18 to 64 years in the US over 5 to 40 years. Publicly available household income data and previous estimates of the income-mortality association were used to generate mortality rates by income group. Deterministic sensitivity analyses were conducted to evaluate the effect of parameter uncertainty and various model assumption

SUBMITTER: Avancena ALV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9187947 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature