Subjective social status: Its determinants and its association with measures of ill-health in the Whitehall II study

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1321-1333

  Singh Manoux, Archana ^a   Adler, Nancy E ^b   Marmot, Michael G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Education, UK; Income; Inequalities in health; Occupation; Subjective status; Whitehall

Indexed keywords

HEALTH RISK; INCOME; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; OCCUPATION; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FINANCE; HUMAN; INCOME; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; QUALITY CONTROL; SATISFACTION; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; COHORT STUDIES; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT AGENCIES; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; LONDON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONS; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0037367173     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(02)00131-4     Document Type: Article

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