David Blane

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight material deprivation as the crucial factor in explaining inequalities in health in the UK and highlight the importance of material deprivation in health inequalities in communities in the north of England.

TL;DR: A needs satisfaction measure of QoL in early old age, which has four ontologically grounded domains: control, autonomy, pleasure, and self-realization, which appears to be a useful scale for measuring quality of life in older people.

TL;DR: The stronger association of education with death from cardiovascular causes than with other causes of death may reflect the function of education as an index of socioeconomic circumstances in early life, which appear to have a particular influence on the risk of cardiovascular disease.

TL;DR: Adverse socioeconomic circumstances in childhood have a specific influence on mortality from stroke and stomach cancer in adulthood, which is not due to the continuity of social disadvantage throughout life.

TL;DR: Assessment of the influence of socioeconomic position over a lifetime on risk factors for cardiovascular disease, on morbidity, and on mortality from various causes found participants' social class at the time of screening was more strongly associated than the other social class indicators with mortality from cancer and from non-cardiovascular, non-cancer causes.