@misc{BradyKohlerZheng2023, author = {Brady, David and Kohler, Ulrich and Zheng, Hui}, title = {Novel estimates of mortality associated with poverty in the U.S.}, series = {The journal of the American Medical Association : JAMA}, journal = {The journal of the American Medical Association : JAMA}, publisher = {American Medical Association}, address = {Chicago, Ill.}, issn = {0254-9077}, doi = {10.1001/jamainternmed.2023.0276}, year = {2023}, abstract = {The US perennially has a far higher poverty rate than peer-rich democracies.1 This high poverty rate in the US presents an enormous challenge to population health given that considerable research demonstrates that being in poverty is bad for one's health.2 Despite valuable contributions of prior research on income and mortality, the quantity of mortality associated with poverty in the US remains uknown. In this cohort study, we estimated the association between poverty and mortality and quantified the proportion and number of deaths associated with poverty.}, language = {en} }