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CLASS AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS

Class is a contested term and it has been suggested that it is no longer valid for defining social differences between people. However, there is evidence that socio-economic disadvantage in childhood leads to a number of inequalities in adulthood including health, education and employment.

• Seminar notes on the role of class, socio-economic status and ethnicity in health.
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• Acheson, D. 1998 Independent Inquiry into inequalities in health report. Available online from website above.
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• Project on Ethnic Variations in Health: Assessing the Role of Class, Gender and Geography by Dr James Nazroo.
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• The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has taken on the functions of the Health Development Agency to create a single excellence-in-practice organisation responsible for providing national guidance on the promotion of good health and the prevention and treatment of ill health.
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• Information about health inequalities, considering dimensions of social difference.
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• Paper on health inequalities: concepts, frameworks and policy.
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• The Public Health electronic Library aims to provide knowledge and know how to promote health, prevent disease and reduce health inequalities.
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• This paper discusses ‘classism’ (the discrimination against people on the grounds of their class and socioeconomic status) in relation to gender and race.
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Last updated: 4 January 2006