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Autor/inn/en | Yang, Tse-Chuan; Jensen, Leif; Haran, Murali |
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Titel | Social Capital and Human Mortality: Explaining the Rural Paradox with County-Level Mortality Data |
Quelle | In: Rural Sociology, 76 (2011) 3, S.347-374 (28 Seiten)
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0036-0112 |
DOI | 10.1111/j.1549-0831.2011.00055.x |
Schlagwörter | Evidence; Mortality Rate; Rural Areas; Counties; Social Capital; Death; Urban Areas; Race; Ethnicity; Socioeconomic Status; Correlation; Goodness of Fit |
Abstract | The "rural paradox" refers to standardized mortality rates in rural areas that are unexpectedly low in view of well-known economic and infrastructural disadvantages there. We explore this paradox by incorporating social capital, a promising explanatory factor that has seldom been incorporated into residential mortality research. We do so while being attentive to spatial dependence, a statistical problem often ignored in mortality research. Analyzing data for counties in the contiguous United States, we find that: (1) the rural paradox is confirmed with both metro-nonmetro and rural-urban continuum codes, (2) social capital significantly reduces the impacts of residence on mortality after controlling for race and ethnicity and socioeconomic covariates, (3) this attenuation is greater when a spatial perspective is imposed on the analysis, (4) social capital is negatively associated with mortality at the county level, and (5) spatial dependence is strongly in evidence. A spatial approach is necessary in county-level analyses such as ours to yield unbiased estimates and optimal model fit. (As Provided). |
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Update | 2017/4/10 |