Class and Health: Research and Longitudinal Data

by Richard G. Wilkinson (Editor)

Contents:
Socio-economic differences in mortality : interpreting the data on their size and trends / R.G. Wilkinson --
Social inequalities in mortality : the social environment / M.G. Marmot --
Social class mortality differentials : artefact, selection, or life circumstances? / A.J. Fox, P.O. Goldblatt, D.R. Jones --
Serious illness in childhood and its association with later life achievement / M.E.J. Wadsworth --
Unemployment and mortality in the OPCS longitudinal study / K.A. Moser, A.J. Fox, D.R. Jones --
Income and mortality / R.G. Wilkinson --
Inequalities in health and health care : a research agenda / J. LeGrand --
Longitudinal studies in Britain relevant to inequalities in health / M. Blaxter.

223 pages, Hardcover

First published September 4, 1986

About the author

Richard G. Wilkinson (Richard Gerald Wilkinson; born 1943) is a British researcher in social inequalities in health and the social determinants of health. He is Professor Emeritus of social epidemiology at the University of Nottingham, having retired in 2008. He is also Honorary Professor at University College London.

He is best known for his 2009 book (with Kate Pickett) The Spirit Level, in which he argues that societies with more a equal distribution of incomes have better health outcomes than ones in which the gap between richest and poorest parts society is greater. His 1996 book Unhealthy Societies: The Affliction of Inequality had made the same argument a decade earlier.