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

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 …

Observations of a positive association between socioeconomi position (SES) and health are
not new, extending back to the: 12th century (Antonovsky 1967; Syme and Berkman 1976) …

Life expectancy has always differed according to status in society, with a higher mortality
among those of lower social status. Although cancer and cardiovascular diseases are more …

In all countries with available data, risks of disease and premature death tend to be
systematically higher for those with lower levels of education and income. During the 1990s …

In the past 15 years, we have seen a marked increase in research on socioeconomic status
(SES) and health. Research in the first part of this era examined the nature of the …

This paper reviews the evidence on the well-known positive association between
socioeconomic status and health. We focus on four dimensions of socioeconomic status …

Context.—A prominent hypothesis regarding social inequalities in mortality is that the
elevated risk among the socioeconomically disadvantaged is largely due to the higher …

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