Open AccessSocioeconomic Position, Health, and Possible Explanations: A Tale of Two Cohorts
Author(s) -
Rebecca Fuhrer,
Martin J. Shipley,
J.-F. Chastang,
Annie Schmaus,
Isabelle Niedhammer,
Stephen Stansfeld,
Marcel Goldberg,
Michael Marmot
Publication year - 2002
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.92.8.1290
Subject(s) - socioeconomic status , environmental health , association (psychology) , position (finance) , medicine , psychology , demography , sociology , population , economics , finance , psychotherapist
We examined whether the social gradient for measures of morbidity is comparable in English and French public employees and investigated risk factors that may explain this gradient.