HTHSCI 2RR3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Social Capital, Asthma, Birth Weight
25 Oct 2017
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Income, income distribution, and health in canada pp. Many canadian studies have shown a positive correlation between income and health. 2 general types of studies looking at income and health: those assessing the relationship between income and health, and those assessing the relationship between income inequality and health. Income measures do not necessarily encompass factors such as social deprivation and social capital; the social aspects of poverty. Studies may use data in which the unit of measurement is the macro (population) instead of the micro (individual) level. Macro level analysis may be subject to a bias called the ecological fallacy- occurs when macro level data is used to make inferences at the individual level. Individual- level study designs eg cross sectional studies that assess for poverty-health relationship at one point in time do not allow one to determine whether poverty preceded poor health. More feasible that poor health precedes poverty.
