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1. Absolute or relative? : a comparative analysis of the relationship between poverty and mortality
abstractObjectives: 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 fixed, poverty we based upon the US poverty threshold. Our analyses were conducted on data for 30 countries between 1978 and 2010, a total of 149 data points. We separately studied infant, child and adult mortality. Results: Our findings highlight the importance of relative poverty for mortality. Especially for infant and child mortality we found that our estimates of fixed poverty is close to zero either in the crude models, or when adjusting for GDP. Conversely, the relative poverty estimates increased when adjusting for confounders. Our results seemed robust to a number of sensitivity tests. Conclusions: If we agree that risk of death is important, the public policy implication of our findings is that relative poverty, which has close associations to overall inequality, should be a major concern also among rich countries.
Fritzell, Johan; Rehnberg, Jennie; Bacchus Hertzman, Jennie; Blomgren, Jenni;2015
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abstractA prime objective for welfare state activities is to take action to enhance population health and decrease mortality 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 of the relation between population health and income inequality. In this study we make a comparative analysis on the relation between relative poverty and mortality across 26 countries over time with pooled cross-sectional time series analysis. We utilize data from the Luxembourg Income Study to construct age-related poverty rates across countries and time covering the period from around 1980 to 2005 merged with data on age- and gender-specific mortality data from the Human Mortality Database. Our results suggest an impact of relative poverty but also clear differences by welfare regimes that partly go beyond the well-known differences in poverty rates between welfare regimes.
Fritzell, Johan; Kangas, Olli; Bacchus Hertzman, Jennie; Blomgren, Jenni; Hiilamo, Heikki;2013
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Link 3. Income inequality and poverty : do the nordic countries still constitute a family of their own?
Fritzell, Johan; Bäckman, Olof; Ritakallio, Veli-Matti;2011
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Fritzell, Johan; Rehnberg, Jennie; Bacchus Hertzman, Jennie; Blomgren, Jenni;2015
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5. Cross-temporal and cross-national poverty and mortality rates among developed countries
Fritzell, Johan; Kangas, Olli; Bacchus Hertzman, Jennie; Blomgren, Jenni; Hiilamo, Heikki;2013
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6. GINI DP 64: Cross-Temporal and Cross-National Poverty and Mortality Rates among Developed Countries
Fritzell, Johan; Kangas, Olli; Bacchus-hertzman, Jennie; Blomgren, J.;2012
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7. Income inequality and poverty: Do the nordic countries still constitute a family of their own?
Fritzell, Johan; Bäckman, Olof; Ritakallio, Veli-Matti;2011
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8. GINI Country Report: Growing Inequalities and their Impacts in Sweden
Fritzell, Johan; Bacchus-hertzman, Jennie; Bäckman, O.; Borg, I.; Ferrarini, T.; Nelson, K.;2010
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9. Das Ende der Gleichheit? : der schwedische Wohlfahrtsstaat nach der Krise
Palme, Joakim; Fritzell, Johan; Bergmark, Åke;2009
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10. Welfare states and population health: The role of minimum income benefits for mortality
Nelson, Kenneth; Fritzell, Johan;2014
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