Current occupational status is frequently used as an indicator of position in the
socioeconomic structure in analyses of health inequalities. People outside the work-force …

Health and socio-economic status are powerfully linked. This association cannot be
attributed to social-selection effects, and the unequal distribution of behavioural risk factors …

It is a basic assumption in medical sociology that social divisions shape people's health and
illness. That poor health emerges from poor living conditions has been known for a long …

Background Explanations for social inequalities in health are often explored but remain
largely unresolved. To elucidate the origins of health inequalities, we investigated the extent …

RATHER THAN DISCUSSING CONCEPTS OF FAIRNESS AS THEY MIGHT apply to various
aspects of life, I want to draw attention to some of the more important social and health …

In many analyses of social inequality in health, different dimensions of social stratification
have been used more or less interchangeably as measures of the individual's general social …

'Unequal Lives' introduces social and health inequalities. It brings together research from
social epidemiology, sociology and social policy to guide the reader to an understanding of …

We review in this chapter developments over the past fifteen years in the theory of
fundamental social causes of health disparities, specify some issues that arise when the …

In this paper, we present evidence which suggests that key processes of social status
differentiation, affecting health and numerous other social outcomes, take place at the …

OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to determine whether social differences in
health persist or widen during early adulthood. METHODS: A longitudinal follow-up of the …