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 chapter reviews recent studies of socioeconomic status (SES) and racial differences in
health. It traces patterns of the social distribution of disease over time and describes the …

The relationship between the socioeconom-ic position of individuals and populations and
their health is well established—the socioeconomically better-off doing better on most …

Objectives. We examined gender differences in the effects of unemployment on mental
health and assessed whether such effects are associated with interactions among gender …

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 …

This paper examines gender differences in health, based on data from over 14,000 men and
women aged 60 and above from 3 years of the British General Household Survey, 1992 …

Study objective: Many previous studies on socioeconomic inequalities in health have
neglected the causal interdependencies between different socioeconomic indicators. This …

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In memory of my parents, William Stewart White and Margaret Ann White (née Doyle), and for …

Offering a fresh and exciting new perspective on differentiation and inequality, this
absorbing book investigates how our most personal choices (of sexual partners, friends …

Married adults are generally healthier than unmarried adults. It has been hypothesized that
marriage is associated with good health because marriage has beneficial effects on health …