Researchers at the University of California , Riverside have identified poverty as the fourth-greatest cause of death in the United States. Poverty was associated with an estimated 183,000 deaths in the country in 2019 among people 15 years and older. This estimate is considered conservative, the authors said, because the data is from the year prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings are published in JAMA Internal Medicine.
The analysis estimated the number of poverty deaths by analyzing income data kept by the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan and death data from household surveys from the Cross-National Equivalent File. Deaths reported in surveys were validated in the National Death Index, a database kept by the National Center for Health Statistics, which tracks deaths and their causes in the U.S.
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