Medicine and epidemiology currently dominate the study of the strong association between
socioeconomic status and mortality. Socioeconomic status typically is viewed as a causally …

Link and Phelan (1995) developed the theory of fundamental causes to explain why the
association between socioeconomic status (SES) and mortality has persisted despite radical …

Differentials in health and longevity by socioeconomic status and by the nature of social
relationships have been found in innumerable studies in the social and medical sciences …

This review focuses on the widening disparities in death rates by socioeconomic class. In
recent years, there has been a major increase in the availability of data linking mortality risk …

Mortality rates in the developed world have fallen sharply during the twentieth century.
Individuals of lower socioeconomic status, however, generally have faced higher mortality …

Putting together a coherent picture of how income and mortality are and are not related may
provide unexpected insights into the socioeconomic determinants of health. In this issue of …

The association of socioeconomic status (SES) with morbidity and mortality is a ubiquitous
finding in the health literature. One of the principal challenges for biobehavioral researchers …

Mortality studies show that social inequalities in health include, but are not confined to,
worse health among the poor. There is a social gradient; mortality rises with decreasing …

Social class inequalities in health and mortality have become an increasingly prominent
topic of study among sociologists, demographers, economists, and social epidemiologists …

PURPOSE: To summarize recent and past American and British studies on the relationship
of social class and health status. DATA SOURCES: A systematic review of the pertinent …