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

This article seeks to elucidate the relationship between socioeconomic position and health
by showing how different facets of socioeconomic position (education and income) affect …

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 …

Research on the social determinants of health has increasingly sought to understand the
relative importance of different features of socioeconomic status. Much of the ensuing …

Socioeconomic status (SES) is defined as a measure of one's combined economic and
social status and tends to be positively associated with better health. This entry focuses on …

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

A positive relationship between socioeconomic status and health has been observed over
many populations and many time periods. One of the factors mediating this relation is the …

The relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and health is one of the most robust
and well documented findings in social science. However, the reasons for the relationship …

This study investigates whether childhood health acts as a mechanism through which
socioeconomic status is transferred across generations. The study uses data from the Panel …

The gradient between socioeconomic status (SES) and health is well established: Many
measures of health show that health increases as SES increases. However, the …