Objectives: We aimed to examine the cross-national and cross-temporal association between poverty and mortality, in … particular differentiating the impact of absolute and relative poverty. Methods: We employed pooled cross-sectional time series … analysis. Our measure of relative poverty was based upon the standard 60 percent of median income. The measure of absolute, or …

risks. Poverty has for several centuries been seen as a key social risk factor in these respects. Consequently, the fight … against poverty has historically been at the forefront of public health and social policy. The relation between relative … poverty rates and population health indicators is less self-evident, notwithstanding the obvious relation to the debated topic …