Yes, this is the first thing that occurred to me. But figuring out what the
specific mechanisms that effect health status is tricky. I can think of a
number of candidates the fall under the Reich-type of phenomena. A higher
prevalence of dirty industries with low occupational health and safety
standards enforcement, ditto for environmental air pollution, more stress
and violence in general because of aggravated social conflict, more tobacco
and alcohol use for the same reason, etc. But as far as I know no one as
tried to look as specific factors like this for the high and low health
status SMSAs. It would be a major task and I'm not sure how much of the
necessary data would be available. The U.S. has pretty good national
surveys on some of these variables but they are generally not designed so
that the data is avialable at the SMSA level.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Devine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 6:05 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L:16460] Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Income Inequality and Health
At 11:55 AM 08/28/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Yes, this is all correct. I have recently completed an extensive review of
>this subject for cancer that supports this. BUT, what Deaton found was
that
>the average health status of WHITE men as well as Black men is worse in
>SMSAs with higher percent black population.
this reminds me of Michael Reich's finding (in his RACIAL INEQUALITY, for
which I was a research assistant) that areas with high gaps between white
and black incomes also had high income gaps among white incomes, suggesting
that the white working class was weakened by racial differences.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine
