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Unequal Health Chances
INEQUALITIES IN HEALTH CHANCES Unequal health chances: Socio-economic factors The dominant tradition in work on health inequalities in the UK has focused on links between social class and measures of mortality (death rates and life expectancy) and of morbidity (diagnosed illness). Criticisms of the validity of measures of social class based on male occupation have led to the examination of other measures of socioeconomic status (Davey Smith et al. 1990 and 1998b). Paying attention to the non-employed – as the majority of social work service users are (Becker 1997) – reveals increased inequalities as well as the significance of dimensions other than occupation (Judge and Benzeval 1993; Roberts et al. 1997). It is ‘those occupying disadvantaged positions in the hierarchies of class, gender, “race” and disability who are overrepresented among households on low income’ (Graham 1995: 10). Moreover there has been increasing recognition that ‘medical’ statistics of health and illness can illuminat
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