Social status and living with a chronic illness: An exploration of assessment and meaning attributed to work and employment

Chronic Illness

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 273-290

  Vassilev, Ivaylo ^a,b   Rogers, Anne ^b   Sanders, Caroline ^a,c   Cheraghi Sohi, Sudeh ^a,c   Blickem, Christian ^a,c   Brooks, Helen ^a   Kapadia, Dharmi ^a   Reeves, David ^a,c   Doran, Tim ^d   Kennedy, Anne ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

capabilities; Health inequalities; long term conditions; social networks; social status

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; INCOME; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARKET; REGISTER; SATISFACTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNITED KINGDOM; WELLBEING; WORK; ADULT; EMPLOYMENT; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL CLASS;

ADULT; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; EMPLOYMENT; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 84921490830     PISSN: 17423953     EISSN: 17459206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1742395314521641     Document Type: Article

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