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- Title
Monitoring Socioeconomic Disparities in Death: Comparing Individual-Level Education and Area-Based Socioeconomic Measures.
- Authors
Rehkopf, David H.; Haughton, Lorna T.; Chen, Jarvis T.; Waterman, Pamela D.; Subramanian, S. V.; Krieger, Nancy
- Abstract
We compared all-cause mortality rates stratified by individual-level education and by census tract area-based socioeconomic measures for Massachusetts (1999-2001). Among persons aged 25 and older, the age-adjusted relative index of inequality was slightly higher for the census tract than for the individual education measures (1.5 vs 1.2, respectively). Only the census tract socioeconomic measures could provide a relative index of inequality (2-3) for deaths before age 25 or detect expected socioeconomic disparities for deaths among persons 65 and older (relative index of inequality = approximately 1.2 vs 0.8 for census tract measures and individual education, respectively).
- Subjects
MASSACHUSETTS; MORTALITY; DEATH; OLDER people; SOCIOECONOMICS; CENSUS; EDUCATION; RESEARCH; STATISTICS
- Publication
American Journal of Public Health, 2006, Vol 96, Issue 12, p2135
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2105/AJPH.2005.075408