Health inequality and population variation in fertility-timing

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Author's Abstract, COPYRIGHT 1999, Elsevier Science Ltd. We estimate the impact of fertility-timing on the chances that children in poor urban African American communities will have surviving and able-bodied parents until maturity. To do so, we use census and vital statistics data to compute age- and sex-specific rates of mortality and functional limitation among prime-aged adult residents of impoverished African American areas in Harlem, Detroit, Chicago, and the Watts area of Los Angeles and for blacks and whites nationwide. Findings are consistent with the hypothesis that the early fertility-timing characteristic of poor urban African American populations mitigates some of the costs to families associated with excess mortality and early health deterioration in young through middle adulthood. Keywords: Mortality; Disability; Poverty; Race; Underclass; Teenage childbearing.

Health aspects, Mortality, Poverty, Poor, Teenage pregnancy, Race

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The reason they're called lessons

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Guidelines for publication in the 'Social Science and Medicine' journal are presented. Topics addressed include research relevance, methodology, writing quality, and originality.

Publishing industry, Methods, Social science research, Medical publishing, Composition (Language arts)

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Income inequality and health: expanding the debate

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The author discusses the relationship between income inequality and health. Topics include neo-liberalism, global capitalism, market dominion, class structure and welfare policy.

International economic relations, Public health, Illustration, Welfare, Public assistance, Capitalism, Equality

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