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Socioeconomic and environmental covariates of premature mortality in Ontario

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  • Jerrett, Michael
  • Eyles, John
  • Cole, Donald

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This paper contributes to debates on the broad determinants of health and on the policy shift from curative to preventive and protective interventions. It addresses empirically the relative importance of influences on health with a multiple regression analysis of ecologic data from the 49 counties of Ontario. One model achieved high predictive power (that is, Adj R2>75%, p

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  • Jerrett, Michael & Eyles, John & Cole, Donald, 1998. "Socioeconomic and environmental covariates of premature mortality in Ontario," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 47(1), pages 33-49, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:47:y:1998:i:1:p:33-49
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    1. Jerrett, Michael & Buzzelli, Michael & Burnett, Richard T. & DeLuca, Patrick F., 2005. "Particulate air pollution, social confounders, and mortality in small areas of an industrial city," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 60(12), pages 2845-2863, June.
    2. Shankardass, Ketan & McConnell, Rob S. & Milam, Joel & Berhane, Kiros & Tatalovich, Zaria & Wilson, John P. & Jerrett, Michael, 2007. "The association between contextual socioeconomic factors and prevalent asthma in a cohort of Southern California school children," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 65(8), pages 1792-1806, October.
    3. Stafford, Mai & Cummins, Steven & Ellaway, Anne & Sacker, Amanda & Wiggins, Richard D. & Macintyre, Sally, 2007. "Pathways to obesity: Identifying local, modifiable determinants of physical activity and diet," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 65(9), pages 1882-1897, November.
    4. Briggs, David & Abellan, Juan J. & Fecht, Daniela, 2008. "Environmental inequity in England: Small area associations between socio-economic status and environmental pollution," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 67(10), pages 1612-1629, November.

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