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

Background A number of prospective cohort studies have examined the association
between intelligence in childhood or youth and life expectancy in adulthood; however, the …

Background Socioeconomic status has been operationalised in a variety of ways, most
commonly as education, social class, or income. In this study, we also use occupational …

Socioeconomic status (SES) is a complex and multidimensional construct, encompassing
both independent objective characteristics (eg, income or education) and subjective …

Research has established a robust association between subjective socioeconomic status
(SES) and health outcomes, which holds over and above the associations between …

John Goldthorpe is one of Britain's most eminent sociologists and a strong advocate of
quantitative sociology. In this concise and accessible book, he provides a new rationale for …

The empirical association between income inequality, population health, and other social
problems is now well established, and the research literature suggests that the relationship …

Forebyggelseskommissionen (Prevention Commission)[17] focused on undertakings to
improve the still relatively short mean life expectancy and did not deal with policies against …

Recent inequality scholarship fixates on trends in the amount of inequality and largely
ignores trends in the form of inequality. The authors describe three ideal-typical inequality …

Two recent studies focusing on issues of social inequality are reviewed, one the work largely
of economists, the other of epidemiologists. In both cases, the conceptualization and in turn …