Sick of social status: A Bourdieusian perspective on morbidity and health inequalities.

ABSTRACT: Self-reported health (SRH) is one of the most frequently used measures for examining socioeconomic inequalities in health. Studies find that when faced with 'identical objective health', individuals in lower socioeconomic groups consistently report worse SRH than those in higher socioeconomic groups. Such findings are often dismissed as being the result of reporting bias, and existing literature dominated by the biomedical conception of SRH has not investigated the underlying social mechanisms at work. To address this limitation, drawing on the work of Bourdieu we employ a relational thinking between health and social position. By way of multiple correspondence analysis, we construct social space of health determinants for three European countries from different welfare states and map the

SUBMITTER: Balaj M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9540620 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature