Data confirming the existence of social inequalities in health have continued to accumulate since the Black Report reported class inequalities across a broad range of causes of mortality, with an increasing emphasis on indicators of morbidity and current health status. Although evidence of...

Parents' proxy reports of longstanding illness in their 15 year children are compared with the young people's own reports, both overall and between different reporting contexts; mother alone, father alone and both parents together. Parents over-report longstanding, but not limiting longstanding,...