STUDY OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that the association between socioeconomic
status and mortality rates cuts across the major causes of death for middle aged and elderly …

STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aim was to explore the magnitude and causes of the differences in
mortality rates according to socioeconomic position in a cohort of civil servants. DESIGN …

Objective: To assess the risk of death associated with work based and non-work based
measures of socioeconomic status before and after retirement age. Design: Follow up study …

STUDY OBJECTIVES: In the UK, studies of socioeconomic differentials in mortality have
generally relied upon occupational social class as the index of socioeconomic position …

BACKGROUND: Many European countries have in recent decades reported growing
socioeconomic differentials in mortality. While these trends have usually paralleled high …

Aim. To measure the association of income, education, occupational class, small area socio-
economic deprivation, car access and labour force status with mortality among 2564 year …

OBJECTIVE: It has been suggested that mortality differences between groups in society may
be greater than are indicated by social class based on occupation. We have examined the …

OBJECTIVES: This study examined (1) the relation of employment grade in middle age to
self-reported poor health and functional limitations in old age and (2) whether …

Study objective: Despite an overall decline in mortality rates, the social gradient in mortality
has increased over the past two decades. However, evidence on trends in morbidity and …

Data from 10 years follow up of mortality in the OPCS Longitudinal Study are used to relate
deaths of men in 1976-81 to their social class as recorded by the 1971 census. Explanations …