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 …

Links between low socioeconomic position and poor health are well established. Most
previous research, however, has focused on middle-aged males and has relied on limited …

Background: Health behaviors may contribute to socioeconomic inequalities in mortality,
although the extent of such contribution remains unclear. We assessed the extent to which …

Objectives. We sought to establish whether women's childhood socioeconomic position
influenced their risk of mortality separately from the effects of adult socioeconomic position …

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 …

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 …

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

The cumulative effects of socioeconomic position (SEP) on cardiovascular disease have
been described, but the pathways are unclear. In this study, the authors examined the effects …

Background Differences in morbidity and mortality between socioeconomic groups
constitute one of the most consistent findings of epidemiologic research. However, research …

The authors have studied whether area-level socioeconomic status predicts mortality
independently of individual-level socioeconomic status in 179,383 persons in the American …