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January 2007, Vol 97, No. 1 | American Journal of Public Health 8-9
© 2007 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2006.101618

LETTER

IS EDUCATIONAL INEQUALITY PROTECTIVE?

Spencer Moore, PhD, MPH, Mark Daniel, PhD and Yan Kestens, PhD

The authors are with the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Université de Montréal, Quebec.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Spencer Moore, PhD, MPH, Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, 3875 St. Urbain, Bureau 3-02, Montréal, Quebec, Canada H2W 1V1 (e-mail: spencer. moore@umontreal.ca).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

Galea and Ahern1 examined the ecological association between educational distribution and a range of population health outcomes. In one of their findings, Galea and Ahern reported that higher levels of educational inequality within New York City neighborhoods were associated with lower percentages of low birthweight. The finding contradicts the more frequently found association between higher levels of income-related inequality and unfavorable population health outcomes. Is neighborhood educational inequality protective of population health?

Given the provocative nature of this question, we sought to examine the ecological association of educational inequality and percentage of low-birthweight infants in Montreal. We measured area-level education . . . [Full Text]






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