Context.—A prominent hypothesis regarding social inequalities in mortality is that the
elevated risk among the socioeconomically disadvantaged is largely due to the higher …

Many demographic, socioeconomic, and behavioral risk factors predict mortality in the
United States. However, very few population-based longitudinal studies are able to …

Background: Health behaviors may contribute to socioeconomic inequalities in mortality,
although the extent of such contribution remains unclear. We assessed the extent to which …

Background There is an inverse relation between socioeconomic status and mortality. Over
the past several decades death rates in the United States have declined, but it is unclear …

Trying to understand why mortality is so strongly related to socioeconomic status (SES) has
been a major concern in demography, epidemiology, and public health for many years, and …

The authors have studied whether area-level socioeconomic status predicts mortality
independently of individual-level socioeconomic status in 179,383 persons in the American …

OBJECTIVES: Data from the Western Collaborative Group Study were used to determine the
extent to which the inverse association between socioeconomic status (SES) and mortality …

This study investigated the hypothesis that socioeconomic differences in health status
change can largely be explained by the higher prevalence of individual health-risk …

Objectives. We sought to quantify the potential health impact of selected medical and
nonmedical policy changes within the United States. Methods. Using data from the 1997 …

BACKGROUND: Low educational attainment is a marker of socioeconomic status that
correlates strongly with higher death rates from many conditions. No previous studies have …