Effects of Local Health Interventions on Inequality in Life Expectancy: New Publicly Available Data

Earlier this year, the three of us, along with several colleagues, published new research on the relationship between income and life expectancy in the United States, drawing on populationlevel data drawn from tax and Social Security records.1 As part of that research, we created new, publicly avail...

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Published inAmerican journal of public health (1971) Vol. 106; no. 12; pp. 2154 - 2155
Main Authors Chetty, Raj, Cutler, David, Stepner, Michael
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States American Public Health Association 01.12.2016
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Aged
Aged, 80 and over
AJPH Place-Based Interventions
Anniversaries
Community Health
Community Health Services - organization & administration
Community Health Services - statistics & numerical data
Commuting
Economics
Female
Forecasting
Geography
Humans
Income distribution
Inequality
Intervention
Life expectancy
Life Expectancy - trends
Local government
Low income groups
Male
Middle Aged
Mortality
Mortality - trends
Preventive Medicine - organization & administration
Preventive Medicine - statistics & numerical data
Public health
Social Science
Social security
Socioeconomic Factors
Statistics/Evaluation/Research
Trends
United States
Websites
Women
United States > US
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Summary:Earlier this year, the three of us, along with several colleagues, published new research on the relationship between income and life expectancy in the United States, drawing on populationlevel data drawn from tax and Social Security records.1 As part of that research, we created new, publicly available data sets with estimates of (1) life expectancy at age 40 years by gender, area (county and commuting zone), income level, and year (2001-2014); and (2) estimates of mortality rates by age ([double dagger] 40 years), gender, area, income level, and year. These new local area data offer researchers a new lens to study the effects of medical care and public health interventions on the health and life expectancy of various population subgroups. In this editorial, we describe the construction of the data and their contents.
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The authors contributed equally to this article.
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ISSN:0090-0036
1541-0048
DOI:10.2105/AJPH.2016.303492