In the early postwar period, improvements in life expectancy in many Western countries
made health authorities, health scientists and politicians believe that social differences in …

Across today's developed world, there is a clear mortality gradient by socioeconomic status
for all ages. It is often taken for granted that this gradient was as strong—or even stronger …

Background: Socioeconomic status is a powerful predictor of mortality in living populations,
as status affects exposure or access to a variety of factors that impact health and survival …

Higher socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with lower mortality, and this correlation
has been confirmed using different indicators across several geographical settings …

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Abstract The Demographic Data Base (DDB) at the Centre for Demographic and Ageing
Research (CEDAR) at Umeå University has since the 1970s been building longitudinal …

BACKGROUND Social position is one of the major determinants of health. Less is known
about its effect in historical contexts. Previous studies have shown surprisingly small effects …

Historical relationships between socio‐economic status and mortality remain poorly
understood. This is particularly the case in England, due to a lack of status indicators in …

Even more than in developing countries today, public health strategies to fight infectious
disease in the past focused on the prevention of new infections by stopping their spread …

15 these local studies have provided explanations that tend to be time specific: for example
the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century government information campaigns for …