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http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/reprint/320/7239/898.pdf
Relation between income inequality and mortality in Canada and in the United States: cross sectional assessment using census data and vital statistics. To compare the relation between Mortality and income inequality in Canada with out in the United States.
Author(s): Ross, Nancy A., Wolfson, Michael C., Dunn, James R., Berthelot, JeanMarie, Kaplan, George A., Lynch, John W. Originator(s): The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
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12/12/2000
Objective:
The juxtaposition of Canadian and US policies in these analyses raises questions about differences in the social and material conditions of the two countries that mute (in Canada) and exaggerate (in the United States) the relation of inequality to mortality. One plausible difference is the greater degree of economic segregation in large US cities. Such segregation can create a spatial mismatch between workers and jobs and large inequalities in provision of public goods and services (for example, schools, transportation, health care, policing, housing, etc) because of concentrations of people with high social needs in municipalities with low tax bases. The population health effects of inequalities in provision of these public goods and others like parks, libraries, and recreation facilities need to be the focus of future research.
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