Bill wrote:
>I like the (Reich-type?) political 'explanation' of these issues --
>variables like income inequality roughly represent relative social power.
>Mortality rates in the US are worse than in other countries because the
>capitalist minority in the US has relatively more power to impose th
Deaton's results show that including percent Black "knocks out" income
inequality as (partly) explaining mortality in US metropolitan areas. I
wonder if the the reverse is not also be true -- are they two not well
corellated? So how can his results be taken as refuting the
Wilkinson-type argument
: Jim Devine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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At 11:55 AM 08/28/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Yes, this is all correct. I have recently completed an extensive review of
>t
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 bl
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From: Gar Lipow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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I can suggest some stories.
One is aggressiveness of treatment. With very serious illness, there are
often broad choices within
tories go with these measures???
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> From: Bill Burgess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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> Martin Brown wrote that ecologic
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Martin Brown wrote that ecological regressions (like average health against
average income plus income inequality) are not worth the effort. Could you
expand a bit on why? I think regession assumptions
Martin Brown wrote that ecological regressions (like average health against
average income plus income inequality) are not worth the effort. Could you
expand a bit on why? I think regession assumptions like linearity,
independendence of variables and unidirection of causality are big problems
er summary
measure) as a measure of social structure and mean level of individual
health.
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From: Michael Perelman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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Fred Guy wrote
I'd say (2). Doesn't racism have effects on health status (through
judgments
made in health care, and perhaps through other routes - surely I've read
of big
race-based differences in treatment for acute heart problems in the US)?
Racism
and race relations in the US do t
Brown, Martin - ARP (NCI) wrote:
>I'll try to respond to this when I have more time to do it right. But there
>is something else I wanted to bring up from the International Health
>Economics Association meeting.
>
>There were several plenary and regular sessions focusing on the "Wilkinson
>Hypot
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