Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
9-2017
Abstract
In The Health Gap, Michael Marmot describes how, starting even before birth, social conditions set individuals on trajectories that eventuate in inequities in health and longevity. In addition to race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status linked to income and education plays a major role in determining health trajectories. The effects emerge not only at the very bottom of the socioeconomic spectrum, but across the whole range.1 The fact that health effects persist at levels where resources are more than adequate to fulfill material needs suggests that the health gap is not due only to material privation associated with poverty, but also to social processes created by relative disadvantage. Given this, understanding and addressing the experience of relative deprivation is needed along with tackling adversities of material deprivation.
Discipline
Social Psychology | Social Psychology and Interaction
Research Areas
Psychology
Publication
International Journal of Epidemiology
Volume
46
Issue
4
First Page
1329
Last Page
1331
ISSN
0300-5771
Identifier
10.1093/ije/dyx167
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP): Policy B - Oxford Open Option D
Citation
ADLER, Nancy E., & TAN, Jacinth J. X..(2017). Tackling the health gap: The role of psychosocial processes. International Journal of Epidemiology, 46(4), 1329-1331.
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Authors
Creative Commons License
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyx167