-438.<P> A strong relationship between health and socioeconomic status is firmly established. Yet, partly due to the … allows investigation of whether the socioeconomically disadvantaged, on top of a lower health level, experience a sharper … deterioration of their health over the life cycle. We show that in the Netherlands, as in the US, the socioeconomic gradient in …

Distribution', volume 2B, North Holland, Elsevier, chapter 18, 143 pages.<P> We examine the relationship between income and health … with the purpose of establishing the extent to which the distribution of health in a population contributes to income … inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence supports a significant and substantial impact of ill-health …