Subjective social status: its determinants and its association with measures of ill-health in the Whitehall II study.
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Results indicate that subjective status is a strong predictor of ill-health, and that education, occupation and income do not explain this relationship fully for all the health measures examined, and provide further support for the multidimensional nature of both social inequality and health.About:
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Socioeconomic status in health research: one size does not fit all.
Paula Braveman,Catherine Cubbin,Susan Egerter,Sekai Chideya,Kristen S. Marchi,Marilyn Metzler,Samuel F. Posner +6 more
TL;DR: Evidence shows that conclusions about nonsocioeconomic causes of racial/ethnic differences in health may depend on the measure-eg, income, wealth, education, occupation, neighborhood socioeconomic characteristics, or past socioeconomic experiences used to "control for SES," suggesting that findings from studies that have measured limited aspects of SES should be reassessed.
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Income inequality and population health: a review and explanation of the evidence.
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Central role of the brain in stress and adaptation: links to socioeconomic status, health, and disease.
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Health inequalities among British civil servants: the Whitehall II study
Michael Marmot,Stephen Stansfeld,Chandrakant R. Patel,Fiona M North,Jenny Head,Ian R. White,Eric J. Brunner,A Feeney,G. Davey Smith +8 more
TL;DR: There was an inverse association between employment grade and prevalence of angina, electrocardiogram evidence of ischaemia, and symptoms of chronic bronchitis, and self-perceived health status and symptoms were worse in subjects in lower status jobs.