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IJE Advance Access originally published online on June 3, 2005
International Journal of Epidemiology 2005 34(4):896-897; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi116
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Commentary: Income inequality and reproductive outcomes—that model is best which models the least

Jay S Kaufman

Department of Epidemiology, UNC School of Public Health, 2104C McGavran-Greenberg Hall, Pittsboro Road, CB#7435, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7435, USA. E-mail: Jay_Kaufman@unc.edu

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One thing that most of us have figured out by now is that when it comes to health outcomes, it is not good to be poor. Furthermore, in a racially stratified society, it is generally not good for one's health to be a member of the racial group that isn't advantaged in the social hierarchy. All this has been known for a long time, but what social epidemiologists have managed to do quite successfully of late is to suggest new ways of classifying places that are independently predictive of risk for adverse outcomes, conditional on those previously defined individual-level classifications. One of the most successful of these new constructs is income inequality, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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