In epidemiological studies, there is a tendency to include social class, or socio-economic
status, with as much regularity but as little thought as with the inclusion of gender. All …

STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aim of the study was to review published work reporting mortality
from conditions amenable to medical intervention and compare the methods used and the …

Background National levels of personal health-care access and quality can be
approximated by measuring mortality rates from causes that should not be fatal in the …

Background The reduction by a third of premature non-communicable disease (NCD)
mortality by 2030 is the ambitious target of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3.4 …

Background A key component of achieving universal health coverage is ensuring that all
populations have access to quality health care. Examining where gains have occurred or …

When originally published in 1988, this book presented new evidence of inequalities in
health found among communities in different areas of the North of England. It relates this …

The validity of various self-reported health assessments in predicting physician contacts and
all-cause mortality was investigated in a prospective study in Finland. The follow-up periods …

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

Objective: To determine the effect of income inequality as measured by the Robin Hood
index and the Gini coefficient on all cause and cause specific mortality in the United States …

Background: The Massachusetts 2006 health care reform has been called a model for the
Affordable Care Act. The law attained near-universal insurance coverage and increased …