Eliminating health disparities is a fundamental, though not always explicit, goal of public
health research and practice. There is a burgeoning literature in this area, but a number of …

Social class inequalities in health and mortality have become an increasingly prominent
topic of study among sociologists, demographers, economists, and social epidemiologists …

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 …

We quantify the lasting effects of childhood health and economic circumstances on adult
health, employment and socioeconomic status, using data from a birth cohort that has been …

Background Research into social inequalities in health has tended to focus on low
socioeconomic status in adulthood. We aimed to test the hypothesis that children's …

The 1958 birth cohort or the National Child Development Study (NCDS) began as a study of
Perinatal Mortality focussing on just over 17 000 births in a single week in 1958. To address …

The effects of socioeconomic status (SES) on health are well documented in adulthood, but
far less is known about its effects in childhood. The authors reviewed the literature and found …

OBJECTIVES: This study investigated associations between family income, food
insufficiency, and health among US preschool and school-aged children. METHODS: Data …

The social patterning of disease and mortality provokes a search for explanation. One
potential underlying explanation for socioeconomic status (SES) gradients in health is …

Two major health problems illustrate the social determinants of health: the social gradient in
disease, and the striking differences in life expectancy between the countries of western …