Infectious disease mortality among adults by race and socioeconomic status: metropolitan Ohio, 1989-1991.
The data presented here are part of an on-going longitudinal study of the relationship between socioeconomic status and mortality in the major metropolitan centers of Ohio. Using a Standardized Mortality Ratio, we find that mortality in the seven-city urban aggregate exceeds that of the rest of the state by 39 per cent for the nonwhite population and only 1 per cent for the white population. Further, for the nonwhite population, living in a high income area has no discernible health benefit for nonwhites as compared to whites. On the other hand, for the AIDS virus, there is a clear inverse association between economic status and mortality from AIDS. It is clear that the interrelationship among race, economic status, and health continues to be a complex one on which further research is needed.
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Department of Sociology, Bowling Green State University, Ohio 43403, USA.
Goza
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D000328:Adult; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000401:mortality*; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000401:mortality; D006801:Humans; D009820:Ohio / Q000453:epidemiology; D010272:Parasitic Diseases / Q000401:mortality; D044469:Racial Groups; D012141:Respiratory Tract Infections / Q000401:mortality; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors