STUDY OBJECTIVES: In the UK, studies of socioeconomic differentials in mortality have
generally relied upon occupational social class as the index of socioeconomic position …

STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aim was to explore the magnitude and causes of the differences in
mortality rates according to socioeconomic position in a cohort of civil servants. DESIGN …

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 …

Study objective: Education, income, and occupational class are often used interchangeably
in studies showing social inequalities in health. This procedure implies that all three …

OBJECTIVES: This study examined how social class, measured at 3 staged of life,
contributes to mortality risk. METHODS: A cohort of employed Scottish men (n= 5567) …

STUDY OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that the association between socioeconomic
status and mortality rates cuts across the major causes of death for middle aged and elderly …

Social class differences in health in the UK have usually been demonstrated by the
Registrar General's social classification (RGSC). It is being replaced by the new UK National …

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 …

OBJECTIVES: Twelve countries were compared with respect to occupational class
differences in ischemic heart disease mortality in order to identify factors that are associated …

OBJECTIVES: Four occupation-based measures were used to derive estimates of social
position's effect on all-cause mortality among men and women in a large national cohort …