Absolute or relative? A comparative analysis of the relationship between poverty and mortality

Johan Fritzell (), Johan Rehnberg (), Jennie Bacchus Hertzman () and Jenni Blomgren ()

International Journal of Public Health, 2015, vol. 60, issue 1, 110 pages

Abstract: If we agree that risk of death is important, the public policy implication of our findings is that relative poverty, which has close associations to overall inequality, should be a major concern also among rich countries. Copyright Swiss School of Public Health 2015

Keywords: Poverty; Mortality; Comparative; Inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/s00038-014-0614-2

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