Unhealthy behaviors and their social patterning have been frequently proposed as factors
mediating socioeconomic differences in health. However, a clear quantification of the …

Background: Factors underlying socioeconomic inequalities in mortality are not well
understood. This study contributes to our understanding of potential pathways to result in …

Health informatics interventions are designed to help people avoid, recover from, or cope
with disease and disability, or to improve the quality and safety of healthcare. Unfortunately …

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 …

Objective To examine whether overall lifestyles mediate associations of socioeconomic
status (SES) with mortality and incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) and the extent of …

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

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

Economic constraints may contribute to the unhealthy food choices observed among low
socioeconomic groups in industrialized countries. The objective of the present study was to …

Social class understood as social relations of ownership and control over productive assets
taps into parts of the social variation in health that are not captured by conventional …

Objectives: Previous studies of older European populations have established that disability
and morbidity vary with indicators of socio-economic position (SEP). We undertook a …