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Causal explanations for class inequality in health--an empirical analysis.
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A large part of the class differences in physical as well as mental illness can be understood as a result of systematic differences between classes in living conditions, primarily differences in working conditions.About:
This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 1991-01-01. It has received 161 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social class & Social inequality.read more
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Us socioeconomic and racial differences in health: patterns and explanations
TL;DR: The evidence for both a widening SES differential in health status and an increasing racial gap in health between blacks and whites due, in part, to the worsening health status of the African American population is described.
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Socioeconomic Status and Health: The Potential Role of Environmental Risk Exposure
Gary W. Evans,Elyse Kantrowitz +1 more
TL;DR: Evidence of inverse relations between income and other indices of SES with environmental risk factors including hazardous wastes and other toxins, ambient and indoor air pollutants, water quality, ambient noise, residential crowding, housing quality, educational facilities, work environments, and neighborhood conditions is documented.
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Socioeconomic inequalities in health. No easy solution.
TL;DR: Health insurance coverage alone is not likely to reduce significantly SES differences in health, and attention should be paid both in policy decisions and in clinical practice to other SES-related factors that may influence patterns of health and disease.
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Faces of Inequality: Gender, Class, and Patterns of Inequalities in Different Types of Welfare States
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a new typology of welfare states based on institutional structures of relevance for gender inequality as well as class inequality in 18 OECD countries in the arenas of democratic politics, tertiary education, and labor force participation.
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The family affluence scale as a measure of national wealth: validation of an adolescent self-report measure
TL;DR: Examination of the criterion and construct validity of the FAS as a measure of national absolute wealth in 35 countries suggests that FAS can be used with confidence in aggregate analyses of HBSC data that focus on relationships between SES and adolescent health.
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Job Demands, Job Decision Latitude, and Mental Strain: Implications for Job Redesign
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Weight in infancy and death from ischaemic heart disease.
TL;DR: Measurements that promote prenatal and postnatal growth may reduce deaths from ischaemic heart disease and may be especially important in boys who weigh below 7.5 pounds (3.4 kg) at birth.
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Job decision latitude, job demands, and cardiovascular disease : a prospective study of Swedish men
TL;DR: The association between specific job characteristics and subsequent cardiovascular disease was tested using a large random sample of the male working Swedish population and the prospective development of coronary heart disease symptoms and signs was analyzed using a multivariate logistic regression technique.
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Intergenerational Class Mobility in Three Western European Societies: England, France and Sweden
TL;DR: The starting point of almost all recent discussions of comparative (i.e. cross-national) social mobility rates has been the thesis advanced by Lipset and Zetterberg in 1959 that 'the overall pattern of social mobility appears to be much the same in the industrial societies of various Western countries' as mentioned in this paper.