Health and Class: The Early Years.

Abstract

The health inequalities debate - literature, framework for the study longitudinal data - the 1958 birth cohort social differences in health in early adulthood social mobility and class difference in health disentangling causal chains inheritance at birth socio-economic circumstances education and attitudes health in childhood and adolescence individual behaviour integrating and comparing explanations for class differences in health discussion. Appendices: The NCDS health questionnaire supplementary tables definition of measures response rates in the 23-year sample statistics.