The U.S. has experienced a resurgence of income inequality in the past decades. The evidence regarding the mortality … implications of this phenomenon has been mixed. This study employs a rarely used method in mortality research, quantile regression … (QR), to provide insight into the ongoing debate of whether income inequality is a determinant of mortality and to …

mortality and morbidity. For this purpose, we examined whether educational level modifies the association between smoking and … mortality. Information on smoking by age, gender and educational level was extracted from the Belgian Health Interview Surveys … of 1997 and 2001. The mortality follow up of the survey respondents was reported until December 2010. A Poisson …

This study examines the effects of early life socioeconomic and residential conditions on adult mortality. The family …. Survival analysis results suggest that males raised on a farm and in a household owned by their father had lower mortality … status, experienced lower risk of mortality than those raised by farmers owning fewer acres. Results were widely different …

that a procyclical relationship between mortality rates and unemployment rates has already been well established in the U … rates on Canadian age and gender specific mortality rates. Consistent with U.S. results, there is some evidence of a strong … procyclical pattern in the mortality rates of middle-aged Canadians. We find that a one percentage point increase in the …

To evaluate the gender-specific impact of social exclusion on the mortality of older Japanese adults, we performed a … information from 13,310 respondents in 2003. Information on mortality was obtained from municipal databases of the public long … excluded older people were at significantly increased risk (9–34%) for premature mortality. Those with simultaneously relative …

Existing research provides inconsistent evidence for a relationship between overweight and/or obesity and mortality …, and poorly studies the population heterogeneity with respect to the mortality consequence of overweight/obesity. This … study investigates how overweight and/or obesity affect mortality and how these effects may vary across sociodemographic …

This study examined the relationship between loneliness, health, and mortality using a U.S. nationally representative … effect of loneliness at one point on mortality over the subsequent six years, and investigated social relationships, health … behaviors, and health outcomes as potential mechanisms through which loneliness affects mortality risk among older Americans. We …

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 … of mortality for all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality for two indicators: canton-level income inequality and …

The study of marital dissolution (i.e. divorce and separation) and mortality has long been a major topic of interest … for social scientists. We conducted meta-analyses and meta-regressions on 625 mortality risk estimates from 104 studies … ratio (HR) for mortality in our meta-analysis was 1.30 (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.23–1.37) among HRs adjusted for age …