Social class differences in mortality using the new UK National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification.
Social class differences in health in the UK have usually been demonstrated by the Registrar Generals social classification (RGSC). It is being replaced by the new UK National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification (NS-SEC). The NS-SEC is explicitly based on differences between employment relatio...
| Publicado en: | Social Science & Medicine Vol. 50; no. 5; pp. 641 - 650 |
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Elsevier Science
March 2000
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