… Background: The study assessed the mortality related to disability pension (DP) status in
Norway during 1990-96 and investigated whether socioeconomic factors explained the …

… socioeconomic status and risk of disability pension. Methods Five complete birth year cohorts
… and 5782 with complete data constituted the cohort in this prospective study. Each subject …

… But research on health inequalities, and on the broader societal influences … disabilities.
Methods The paper reviews evidence on the patterns and causes of socioeconomic inequalities …

… influence both health and socioeconomic life trajectories. Only a … disability in late adulthood
and childhood socioeconomic … disability at old age to be partly mediated by socioeconomic …

… Aims: Socioeconomic inequalities in both disability retirement and mortality are large. The
… to examine socioeconomic differences in cause-specific mortality after disability retirement …

… of multimorbidity, frailty, and disability, but it does not … socioeconomic status groups. In
individuals without multimorbidity, frailty, and disability, we found evidence of social inequalities in …

… Persons with a lower socioeconomic position spend more years with disability, despite their
… quantify the contribution to educational inequalities in years with disability of eight risk factors…

… inequalities in disability in the elderly. We examined the extent and determinants of
socioeconomic inequalities in disability … in life, has been shown in our cohort to have the potential …

… In this study, we used the slope index of inequality (SII) and the relative index of inequality
(… for making comparisons of the magnitude of socioeconomic inequalities over time (Pekkala, …

… Inequalities in disability are a major challenge for public health in most European countries.
Our findings suggest that these inequalities can be reduced by diminishing inequalities in …