Whose health is impacted by income inequality? Associations between county-level income inequality and healthcare utilisation in an insured population

Income inequality was associated with worse health across a wide range of members by age, income and insurance type, and can be considered as a risk factor by policymakers and health systems.

Authors

Winnie Chi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0098-7944)
Shantanu Agrawal
Martha Johnson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3236-782X)
Cory Silver
Darrell M. Gray (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2506-3465)
Pelin Ozluk

Institutions

Analytical Biological Services (United States) (US)
Covance (United States) (US)

Publication Details

Journal: Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
Published: 2025-12-25
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2024-223562
Primary Topic: Health disparities and outcomes
Type: article
Field-Weighted Citation Impact: 0.00

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article

Whose health is impacted by income inequality? Associations between county-level income inequality and healthcare utilisation in an insured population

Winnie Chi, Shantanu Agrawal, Martha Johnson, Cory Silver et al.

Dec 25, 2025

Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health

Health disparities and outcomes

article

Whose health is impacted by income inequality? Associations between county-level income inequality and healthcare utilisation in an insured population

Winnie Chi, Shantanu Agrawal, Martha Johnson, Cory Silver, Darrell M. Gray, Pelin Ozluk

December 25, 2025article en

Abstract

Income inequality was associated with worse health across a wide range of members by age, income and insurance type, and can be considered as a risk factor by policymakers and health systems.

Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health

Analytical Biological Services (United States) (US), Covance (United States) (US)

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Health disparities and outcomes

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