OBJECTIVES: This study examined (1) the relation of employment grade in middle age to
self-reported poor health and functional limitations in old age and (2) whether …

In order to understand variations of quality of life in early old age, associations between
socio-economic status, socially productive activities and well-being are studied across 14 …

Background: even older adults who are fit experience adverse health outcomes;
understanding their risks for adverse outcomes may offer insight into ambient population …

In arguing that to control disease we need an understanding of disease mechanisms and
social and political action, I have distinguished antecedents. If an appeal to authority be …

Although the idea that early life conditions shape mortality is not new, there has been a
resurgence of studies on the topic in the last two decades. In our review of this work, we …

Objective: To present the Danish Occupational Social Class (DOSC) measurement as a
measure of socioeconomic position (SEP) applicable in a late midlife population, and to …

Background: Older people are among the segments of the population for which the digital
divide is most persistent and are considered to be at risk of losing out on the potential …

In Britain and other developed countries older people comprise a large majority of all those
reporting long term illness or disability. However, most studies of socio-demographic …

Prior research has documented an indirect link between socioeconomic status (SES) and
health, and the goal in this study was to help unravel this phenomenon from a dynamic …

Objective: To measure the childhood and life course socioeconomic exposures of people
born between 1871 and 1949, and then to estimate the probability of death between 1965 …