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SUBMITTER: Krieger N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3359870 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Krieger Nancy N Chen Jarvis T JT Kosheleva Anna A Waterman Pamela D PD
International journal of health services : planning, administration, evaluation 20120101 2
Recent research on the post-1980 widening of U.S. socioeconomic inequalities in mortality has emphasized the contribution of smoking and high-tech medicine, with some studies treating the growing inequalities as effectively inevitable. No studies, however, have analyzed long-term trends in U.S. mortality rates and inequities unrelated to smoking or due to lack of basic medical care, even as a handful have shown that U.S. socioeconomic inequalities in overall mortality shrank between the mid-1960 ...[more]