Comparing health inequality in men and women: prospective study of mortality 1986-96.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To study prospectively the differences in health inequality in men and women from 1986-96 using the Office for National Statistics' longitudinal study and new socioeconomic classification. To assess the relative importance of social class (based on employment characteristics) and social position according to the general social advantage of the household to mortality risk in men and women.

Design

Prospective study.

Setting

England and Wales.

Subjects

Men and women of working age at the time of the 1981 census, with a recorded occupation.

Main outcome measures

Mortality.

Results

In men, social class based on employment relations, measured according to the Office for National Statistics' socioeconomic classification, was the most important

SUBMITTER: Sacker A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC27373 | biostudies-literature | 2000 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature