The prevalence of obesity has been increasing worldwide, which raises concerns about the disease burden associated with obesity. Socioeconomic status (SES) has been suggested to be associated with obesity and obesity related diseases. This study aimed to evaluate the time trend in socioeconomic inequality in obesity-related mortality over the last decade in Korean population. We evaluated the i...

A vexing observation among individuals with ESRD is the decreased mortality associated with attributes that, in healthy populations, confer increased risk of death. Examples include the apparent protective benefit of obesity, higher levels of LDL cholesterol, elevated systolic anddiastolicBP, and increased levels of parathyroid hormone. Potential explanations for this survival paradox include u...

OBJECTIVE To test whether the relation between income inequality and mortality found in US states is because of different levels of formal education. DESIGN Cross sectional, multiple regression analysis. SETTING All US states and the District of Columbia (n=51). DATA SOURCES US census statistics and vital statistics for the years 1989 and 1990. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Multiple regression a...

The second half of the twentieth century witnessed much convergence in life expectancy around the world. Closer inspection of mortality trends in advanced countries reveals that inequality in adult life spans, which we measure with the standard deviation of ages at death above age 10, S10, is increasingly responsible for the remaining divergence in mortality. We report striking differences in l...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The relationship between population health and inequality in income distribution has attracted much attention during the last two decades. The purpose of this paper is to examine that relationship using Israeli time-series data, and considering three types of income: economic, pre-tax, and disposable. METHODS Israeli time series (1979-2000) on life expectancy of men ...

This study aims to understand the nuances behind the often-celebrated relationship between income and mortality in the context of India. The income-life expectancy relationship is nonlinear in nature, with mortality responding sharply in the earlier years and rather slowly in the latter years. The regression analysis between per-capita income and the Gini-Coefficient with mortality for differen...

OBJECTIVE Brazil's large socioeconomic inequalities together with the increase in neonatal mortality jeopardize the MDG-4 child mortality target by 2015. We measured inequality trends in neonatal and under five mortality across municipalities characterized by their socio-economic status in a period where major pro poor policies were implemented in Brazil to infer whether policies and interventi...

BACKGROUND Recent avoidable mortality trends in Australia suggest that health care has made a substantial contribution to reducing mortality. This study investigates if the benefits of health care have been distributed equally by comparing declines in avoidable with non-avoidable mortality over time by socioeconomic status (SES). METHODS We calculated avoidable and non-avoidable mortality rat...

A sample of people aged 40-67 years, taken from a longitudinal register compiled by Statistics Finland, is used to analyse mortality differences between Swedish speakers and Finnish speakers in Finland. Finnish speakers are known to have higher death rates than Swedish speakers. The purpose is to explore whether labour-market experience and partnership status, treated as proxies for measures of...