Socioeconomic status and health: how education, income, and occupation contribute to risk factors for cardiovascular disease. | Zendy

Marilyn A. Winkleby | Zendy; Darius E. Jatulis | Zendy; Erica Frank | Zendy; Stephen P. Fortmann | Zendy

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Socioeconomic status and health: how education, income, and occupation contribute to risk factors for cardiovascular disease.

Author(s) -

Marilyn A. Winkleby,

Darius E. Jatulis,

Erica Frank,

Stephen P. Fortmann

Publication year - 1992

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.82.6.816

Subject(s) - socioeconomic status , epidemiology , medicine , disease , risk factor , demography , environmental health , gerontology , population , sociology

Socioeconomic status (SES) is usually measured by determining education, income, occupation, or a composite of these dimensions. Although education is the most commonly used measure of SES in epidemiological studies, no investigators in the United States have conducted an empirical analysis quantifying the relative impact of each separate dimension of SES on risk factors for disease.

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