Maintaining health and quality of life and decreasing the number of years lived with
disabilities in old age are among the main challenges of aging societies worldwide. This …

Increasing social inequalities in health in the United States and elsewhere, coupled with
growing inequalities in income and wealth, have refocused attention on social class as a key …

This glossary presents a comprehensive list of indicators of socioeconomic position used in
health research. A description of what they intend to measure is given together with how …

Problems with measuring socioeconomic status (SES)—frequently included in clinical and
public health studies as a control variable and less frequently as the variable (s) of main …

▪ Abstract There is little consensus about the meaning of the terms “health
disparities,”“health inequalities,” or “health equity.” The definitions can have important …

To lay the groundwork for devising, improving and implementing strategies to prevent or
delay the onset of disability in the elderly, we conducted a systematic literature review of …

Abstract 'Multiple causation'is the canon of contemporary epidemiology, and its metaphor
and model is the 'web of causation.'First articulated in a 1960 US epidemiology textbook, the …

'Ageing, Corporeality and Embodiment'outlines and develops an argument about the
emergence of a 'new ageing'during the second half of the twentieth century and its …

This paper provides an overview of the Black Report, published in Britain in 1980. It outlines
its place in the history of British concern about socio-economic differentials in death rates …

Background Few studies have compared socioeconomic inequalities in the prevalence of
both fatal and non-fatal diseases. This paper aims to give the first international overview for …