outpatient cost-sharing measurably increases mortality, raising 8-year mortality by 4 deaths per 10,000 individuals. To the best … of our knowledge, this study is the first to show a relationship between cost-sharing and adult mortality risk in a low …

We investigate age-specific mortality in Britain and the United States since 1950. Neither trends in income nor in … patterns of mortality decline. Patterns of income inequality were similar in both countries, but adult and elderly mortality … rates declined most rapidly during the period when inequality increased. Changes in the rate of mortality decline in the US …

deprivation. I review the evidence on the effects of income inequality on the rate of decline of mortality over time, on … geographical pattens of mortality, and on individual-level mortality. Much of the literature needs to be treated skeptically, if …

I present a model of mortality and income that integrates the 'gradient,' the negative relationship between income and … mortality, with the Wilkinson hypothesis, that income inequality poses a risk to health. Individual health is negatively … reference groups, which may be as large as whole populations, mortality declines with income, but at a decreasing rate; the …

cyclical increases in income may raise mortality, even when the long-run effects of income are in the opposite direction. There … is no evidence that recent increases in inequality raised mortality beyond what it would otherwise have been …

nationally representative information that can be used to develop life tables that incorporate cause-specific mortality. To … produce such estimates, we relate annual mortality rates to a set of individual characteristics, applying a statistical model … clinical categories. The framework can also be extended to analyze the mortality and utilization associated with use of …

We estimate the effect of current location on elderly mortality by analyzing outcomes of movers in the Medicare …