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Socioeconomic Status & Health

PROLOGUE

Socioeconomic Status And Health

PROLOGUE: Countless studies have documented a strong relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and health. But pinpointing the specific mechanisms by which poverty is translated into poor health remains a difficult challenge. The effects of income, education, occupation, environment, behavior, and access to health services all tend to operate together to influence health status, confounding efforts to isolate the impact of any single factor.

As a result, evidence supporting discrete, targeted policy interventions to mitigate the effects of SES on health is never easy to produce. Absent such evidence, policymakers bent on reducing disparities may see no alternative but to seek . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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