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Title: National Report Card: Health Inequality

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Publication Year: 2014

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Abstract: There are many reasons why poverty matters, but it is especially troubling that it affects such fundamental outcomes as health and access to health care. If poverty did not bring about all manner of health risks, we would likely be somewhat less troubled by it. But of course poverty and other forms of social and economic disadvantage do often translate into deficits in health and health care. The purpose of this brief is to examine long-term trends in American health and health care. The purpose of this brief is to examine long-term trends in American health and to lay out the current state of evidence on the extent to which health and health care are unequally distributed. We also note how the recent economic downturn affected these trends and disparities.

Url: http://web.stanford.edu/group/scspi/sotu/SOTU_2014_health-inequality.pdf

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Authors: Burgard, Sarah A.; King, Molly M.

Publisher: The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality

Data Collections: IPUMS Health Surveys - NHIS

Topics: Health, Poverty and Welfare

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