Socioeconomic status and health: The role of subjective social status

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 330-340

  Demakakos, Panayotes ^a   Nazroo, James ^b   Breeze, Elizabeth ^a   Marmot, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Education; Health inequalities; Occupational class; Old age; Subjective social status; UK; Wealth

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FIBRINOGEN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

EDUCATION; HEALTH STATUS; OCCUPATION; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; WOMENS STATUS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; SOCIAL STATUS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL CLASS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 44649146456     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.03.038     Document Type: Article

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