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Article: County-level income inequality and depression among older Americans.(empirical analyses)
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- Health Services Research
- Article date:
- December 1, 2003
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Researchers have consistently demonstrated a strong association between socioeconomic status (SES) and health at the individual level (Robert 1998; Smith 1998). What is new is an increasing interest in how socioeconomic conditions of the area of residence influence individuals' lives and health (House 2002; Robert 1998, 1999; Smith 1999). In particular, the relative income hypothesis (Wilkinson 1992, 1996) has stimulated a number of empirical and theoretical papers that attempt to support or question its tenet that the relative SES position, in addition to the absolute level of income, affects health. To refute or confirm the ecological studies that found associations ...