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Social inequalities in health - do they diminish with age?
— editorial | | Author(s) | Margot Jefferys |
| Journal title | American Journal of Public Health, vol 86, no 4, April 1996 |
| Pages | pp 474-475 |
| Keywords | Health [elderly] ; Health services ; Social class ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This issue of the American Journal of Public Health includes papers which examine health status within age groups. In this editorial, the author discusses two rival hypotheses concerning inequalities in health in old age. One holds, that for several reasons, social disparities will be less in old age than at younger ages. The alternative thesis about patterns of mortality, morbidity and disability in old age, is that factors contributing to social differentials in health at earlier life stages continue to influence it in the oldest phase. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980106204 A |
| Classmark | CC: L: T: 7T * |
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