caa a22 4500 606221646 CHVBK 20210128101130.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00038-014-0614-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00038-014-0614-2 Absolute or relative? A comparative analysis of the relationship between poverty and mortality [Elektronische Daten] [Johan Fritzell, Johan Rehnberg, Jennie Bacchus Hertzman, Jenni Blomgren] Objectives: We aimed to examine the cross-national and cross-temporal association between poverty and mortality, in particular differentiating the impact of absolute and relative poverty. Methods: We employed pooled cross-sectional time series analysis. Our measure of relative poverty was based upon the standard 60% of median income. The measure of absolute, or fixed, poverty was based upon the US poverty threshold. Our analyses were conducted on data for 30 countries between 1978 and 2010, a total of 149 data points. We separately studied infant, child, and adult mortality. Results: Our findings highlight the importance of relative poverty for mortality. Especially for infant and child mortality, we found that our estimates of fixed poverty is close to zero either in the crude models, or when adjusting for gross domestic product. Conversely, the relative poverty estimates increased when adjusting for confounders. Our results seemed robust to a number of sensitivity tests. Conclusions: 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. Swiss School of Public Health, 2014 Poverty nationallicence Mortality nationallicence Comparative nationallicence Inequality nationallicence Fritzell Johan Aging Research Center (ARC), Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, Gävlegatan 16, SE-113 30, Stockholm, Sweden aut Rehnberg Johan Aging Research Center (ARC), Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, Gävlegatan 16, SE-113 30, Stockholm, Sweden aut Bacchus Hertzman Jennie Centre for Health Equity Studies (CHESS), Stockholm University and Karolinska Institutet, SE-106 91, Stockholm, Sweden aut Blomgren Jenni The Social Insurance Institution of Finland (KELA), Research Department, P.O. Box 450, FI-00101, Helsinki, Finland aut International Journal of Public Health Springer Basel 60/1(2015-01-01), 101-110 1661-8556 60:1<101 2015 60 38 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-014-0614-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-014-0614-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fritzell Johan Aging Research Center (ARC), Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, Gävlegatan 16, SE-113 30, Stockholm, Sweden aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rehnberg Johan Aging Research Center (ARC), Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University, Gävlegatan 16, SE-113 30, Stockholm, Sweden aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bacchus Hertzman Jennie Centre for Health Equity Studies (CHESS), Stockholm University and Karolinska Institutet, SE-106 91, Stockholm, Sweden aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Blomgren Jenni The Social Insurance Institution of Finland (KELA), Research Department, P.O. Box 450, FI-00101, Helsinki, Finland aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal of Public Health Springer Basel 60/1(2015-01-01), 101-110 1661-8556 60:1<101 2015 60 38