Increasing social inequalities in health in the United States and elsewhere, coupled with
growing inequalities in income and wealth, have refocused attention on social class as a key …

Recent medical sociological research has examined whether the relationship between
education and health is dynamic across age, whereas recent demographic research has …

Socioeconomic and racial/ethnic disparities in health care quality have been extensively
documented. Recently, the elimination of disparities in health care has become the focus of …

Increasingly, social scientists are turning to childhood to gain a better understanding of the
fundamental social causes of adult mortality. However, evidence of the link between …

Objectives. In this study we examined the relationship between indicators of socioeconomic
status (SES) and mortality for a representative sample of individuals. Methods. The sample …

Medicine and epidemiology currently dominate the study of the strong association between
socioeconomic status and mortality. Socioeconomic status typically is viewed as a causally …

This paper focuses on financial strain across the life course as a condition underlying health
inequalities observed in later life. The analysis is based on data from 1,167 adults 65 years …

While there is consistent evidence that inequality in economic resources follows a process of
cumulative advantage, the application of this framework to another aspect of life course …

This paper provides statistical methods that permit the association of socioeconomic status
and health to be partially unraveled in panel data by excluding some postulated causal …

Black Americans live fewer years than whites and live more years with chronic health
problems. The origins of this racial gap are ambiguous. This study examines the …