Background The social gradient in health is one of the most reliable findings in public health
research. The two competing hypotheses that try to explain this gradient are known as the …

Social class inequalities in health and mortality have become an increasingly prominent
topic of study among sociologists, demographers, economists, and social epidemiologists …

Health, United States, 2015 is the 39th report on the health status of the nation and is
submitted by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to the …

Using the 1980 to 2002 General Social Survey, a repeated cross-sectional study that has
been linked to the National Death Index through 2008, this study examines the changing …

Objectives. We investigated the underlying mechanisms of the influence of socioeconomic
status (SES) on mental health and self-rated health (SRH), and evaluated how these …

Over the past two decades, exponential growth of empirical research has fueled markedly
increased concern about health disparities. In this paper, we show the progression of …

There is a large and persistent association between education and health. In this paper, we
review what is known about this link. We first document the facts about the relationship …

This paper reviews the evidence on the well-known positive association between
socioeconomic status and health. We focus on four dimensions of socioeconomic status …

An association between higher educational attainment and better health status has been
repeatedly reported in the literature. Similarly, thousands of studies have found a …

Economic insecurity describes the risk of economic loss faced by workers and households
as they encounter the unpredictable events of social life. Our review suggests a four-part …