Table 1.

Correlations between Primary Care, Specialty Care, Income Inequity, and Standardized Mortality, US States 1980–1995

	Age-Standardized Deaths per 100,000 Population from All Causes
	1980	1985	1990	1995
Gini Coefficent
Same period	.42^‡	.39^‡	.55^‡	.28^†
Prior period	.46^‡	.48^‡	.55^‡
Robin Hood
Same period	.42^‡	.42^‡	.48^‡	.25^*
Prior period	.46^‡	.51^‡	.52^‡
Specialty Care
Same period	.13	.02	−.09	−.13
Prior period	−.11	−.09	−.18
Primary Care
Same period	.30^†	−.18	−.26^*	−.29^†
Prior period	−.30^†	−.25^*	−.34^†
Family Medicine
Same period	−.47^‡	−.35^‡	−.32^†	−.27^*
Prior period	−.50^‡	−.31^†	−.25^*
Internal Medicine
Same period	−.10	−.03	−.11	−.18
Prior period	−.09	−.11	−.19
Pediatrics
Same period	−.08	−.01	−.07	−.05
Prior period	−.07	−.07	−.16