This study examines how socioeconomic inequalities in perceived health were reproduced
as a cohort of adult men became 10 years older, and focuses especially on the role of social …

Objectives: To study how social inequalities change as people age, this paper presents a
growth curve model of self assessed health, which accommodates changes in occupational …

Do socioeconomic differences in health status increase as people age, reflecting cumulative
advantage or disadvantage in health trajectories? Life course research hypothesises that …

Health selection out of the labour force has received considerable attention by analysts
attempting to disentangle the “true” biological dimensions of ill-health from its social …

Health differences which correspond to socioeconomic status (SES) can be attributed to
three causal mechanisms: SES affects health (social causation), health affects SES (health …

Aims: This study describes inequalities and trends in health according to socioeconomic
status in the Nord-Trøndelag Health Study (HUNT I and II) and contribute to the ongoing …

Current occupational status is frequently used as an indicator of position in the
socioeconomic structure in analyses of health inequalities. People outside the work-force …

In the debate about the explanation of socio-economic health inequalities one of the
important issues is the relative importance of health selection. The aim of this study was to …

Background The aim was to study the impact of different categories of working conditions on
the association between occupational class and self-reported health in the working …

This study examines the extent to which position in the occupational hierarchy is predictive
of declines in perceived health status over a 48 month period in a representative sample of …