This thesis explores the relationship between voter income and political ideology preference at the regional and state level. Traditional theories of voter preference contend that richer Americans tend to favor more conservative policy agendas in an effort to minimize income redistribution. The existing empirical literature supports this claim at the national level by finding a significant posi...

BACKGROUND Studies from various countries have observed worse population health in geographical areas with more income inequality. The psychosocial interpretation of this association is that large income disparities are harmful to health because they generate relative deprivation and undermine social cohesion. An alternative explanation contends that the association between income inequality an...

BACKGROUND The evidence linking socioeconomic environments and metabolic syndrome (MetS) has primarily been based on cross-sectional studies. This study prospectively examined the relationships between area-level socioeconomic position (SEP) and the incidence of MetS. METHODS A prospective cohort study design was employed involving 1,877 men and women aged 18+ living in metropolitan Adelaide,...

How a person assesses the wellbeing derived from income is often determined as much by its contrast with a reference point as by the level of income itself. In this paper, I use a household survey from Mexico to examine how subjective poverty assessments not only depend on the absolute level of income, but on how it compares to three reference points: the income of a reference group, the level ...

background: almost one third of the global population is living in developing south asia where disease occurrence is high especially in rural areas and people are unaware of water-borne diseases and cost of illness. methods: the quantitative approach involved questionnaire based study (n=50 households). the community awareness, the occurrence of water-borne diseases with related cost of illness...

BACKGROUND It has been hypothesized that areas with an unequal income distribution are less likely to invest in health and more likely to have a social environment that influences the development of ischaemic heart disease (IHD) METHODS: We used pooled data from two cohort studies conducted in Copenhagen to analyse the association between area income inequality and first admission to hospital o...

Using data from the March Current Population Surveys, this paper provides mid-1980s poverty rates by state under four alternative measures of poverty: the official measure, prewelfare poverty, pretransfer poverty (federal and state transfers), and a new measure, pre-state-transfer poverty. It also analyzes state-by-state the antipoverty effectiveness of transfers. The results show considerable ...

State-level income inequality has been found to have an effect on individual health outcomes, even when controlled for important individual-level variables such as income, education, age, and gender. The effect of income inequality on health may not be immediate and may, in fact, have a substantial lag time between exposure to inequality and eventual health outcome. We used the 2006 American Co...