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Do socioeconomic differences in mortality persist after retirement? — 25 year follow up of civil servants from the first Whitehall study
Author(s)	M G Marmot, Martin J Shipley
Journal title	British Medical Journal, vol 313 no 7066, 9 November 1996
Pages	pp 1177- 1180
Keywords	Civil servants ; Socio-economic groups ; Retirement ; Death rate [statistics] ; Private cars ; Health [elderly] ; Longitudinal surveys.
Annotation	This reports on a follow up study of mortality in relation to employment grade and car ownership of 18,133 male civil servants aged 40-69 who attended screening examination between 1967 and 1970. Its objective was to assess the risk of death associated with work based and non-work based measures of socioeconomic status before and after retirement. Socioeconomic differences in mortality persist up to age 89. Social differences based on occupational status are less after retirement, suggesting the importance of work in generating inequalities in health. A non-work based measure of socioeconomic status continues to predict relative differences in mortality after retirement. Absolute differences in mortality between less and more advantaged groups increase at older ages.
Accession Number	CPA-970226001 A
Classmark	XM8: T4: G3: S5: O3: CC: 3J *
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