The development of social epidemiology and medical sociology over the last half of the 20th
century, in which Leo Reeder played a central role, transformed scientific and popular …

Data confirming the existence of social inequalities in health have continued to accumulate
since the Black Report reported class inequalities across a broad range of causes of …

Background: The aim of this study was to compare inequalities in mortality (all causes and
by cause) by occupational group and educational level between men and women living in …

The importance of socioeconomic conditions for health has been recognized for centuries (1–
3). No matter whether we are talking about the mill towns of Victorian England (4), the …

Epidemiological studies tend to include the category of social class or socioeconomic status
as regularly but with as little thought as the category of sex. The large social differences in …

In epidemiological studies, there is a tendency to include social class, or socio-economic
status, with as much regularity but as little thought as with the inclusion of gender. All …

Two recent studies focusing on issues of social inequality are reviewed, one the work largely
of economists, the other of epidemiologists. In both cases, the conceptualization and in turn …

The literature on health inequalities often uses measures of socio-economic position
pragmatically to rank the population to describe inequalities in health rather than to …

Scientific studies of social inequalities in health have proliferated in recent years (Feinstein
1993; Marmot, Shipley, and Rose 1984; Williams and Collins 1995). This literature, which …

Study objective: Many previous studies on socioeconomic inequalities in health have
neglected the causal interdependencies between different socioeconomic indicators. This …