Context Previous studies may have underestimated the contribution of health behaviors to
social inequalities in mortality because health behaviors were assessed only at the baseline …

In this paper we use the two waves of the British Retirement Survey (1988/89 and 1994) to
quantify the relationship between socio-economic status and health outcomes. We find that …

PURPOSE: Educational attainment is a widely used indicator of socioeconomic status (SES)
in health studies. However, little is known about its relationship to health relative to …

Background The objective of this retrospective cohort study was to investigate the burden of
disability and death in men, from middle age to age of retirement, among occupational …

Many studies have demonstrated the graded association between socioeconomic position
and health. Few of these studies have examined the cumulative effect of socioeconomic …

STUDY OBJECTIVE The debate on health inequalities has shifted from the consequences of
occupational position, as expressed in the Registrar General's classification, to …

This paper presents an analysis of trends in mortality differentials and life expectancy by
average relative earnings for male Social Security-covered workers aged 60 or older …

The paper investigates relationship between mortality and social class as measured by the
Erikson‐Goldthorpe schema, a validated measure of employment conditions, and compares …

Social inequality in health is a widely recognized problem. In most countries, those who are
poorer and less well educated have worse health outcomes. This is true in most countries …

In Spain, the study of socioeconomic differences in mortality has been limited by the fact that
death certificates often do not include complete information on occupation. In this study, we …