Mare R D
Am J Public Health. 1982 Jun;72(6):539-47. doi: 10.2105/ajph.72.6.539.
Despite considerable reason for scholarly and policy interest in socioeconomic mortality differentials, socioeconomic effects on child and teenage mortality in the United States have been a neglected research topic because of several data limitations. Exploiting data obtained for other purposes, this paper reports socioeconomic effects on the mortality of children and teenagers. Socioeconomic mortality differentials among children are large--at least as large as those among adults. The major source of socioeconomic mortality differences among children is apparently differential risk to accidental death. Within the child population, the strength of socioeconomic effects varies directly with the relative importance of accidents as a component of overall mortality.
尽管社会经济因素对死亡率差异在学术和政策层面有相当大的研究价值，但由于数据方面的一些限制，美国社会经济因素对儿童和青少年死亡率的影响一直是个被忽视的研究课题。本文利用为其他目的获取的数据，报告了社会经济因素对儿童和青少年死亡率的影响。儿童群体中社会经济因素造成的死亡率差异很大——至少与成年人中的差异一样大。儿童社会经济死亡率差异的主要来源显然是意外死亡风险的不同。在儿童群体中，社会经济因素影响的强度与意外事故作为总体死亡率一部分的相对重要性直接相关。
