Mitigating effect of immigration on the relation between income inequality and mortality: a prospective study of 2 million Canadians

Abstract

Income inequality is associated with mortality in Canadian-born individuals but not immigrants.

Does higher income inequality adversely influence infant mortality rates? Reconciling descriptive patterns and recent research findings

“…These studies have demonstrated that, in Canada, where the social safety net is stronger than in the United States, income inequality has a non-significant effect on population health outcomes, while the strength of the association is consistently significant in the United States, where higher income inequality is correlated with poorer population health (e.g., higher adult mortality rates) (Ross et al, 2000(Ross et al, , 2005(Ross et al, , 2001Siddiqi et al, 2013;Siddiqi and Hertzman, 2007). More recent Canadian analyses of individual well-being suggest a more complex association, but due to concerns regarding ecological fallacy, these analyses are not directly comparable to the present ones (Auger et al, 2012).…”

Income inequality and health: A causal review

“…Among immigrants who lived in the USA between 6 and 20 years, those for whom moving to the USA was a move towards greater equality had better self-reported health than those for whom it was a move towards greater inequality. Similarly, Auger and colleagues found that income inequality was associated with mortality among non-immigrant Canadians but not migrants, although for long-term immigrants the effects tended to approach those of the Canadian born population (Auger et al, 2012).…”

Mortality Inequality in Canada and the U.S.: Divergent or Convergent Trends?

“…3 Some prior Canadian studies have looked at inequality in mortality at the provincial or census metropolitan area level including Statistics-Canada (1999); Ross et al (2000); Auger et al (2012); Tjepkema et al (2013). 6 in mortality by individual lifetime income or education.…”