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International Journal of Epidemiology 2001;30:899-900
© International Epidemiological Association 2001

Letters to the Editor

Historical roots of social epidemiology: socioeconomic gradients in health and contextual analysis

Nancy Krieger

Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Email: nkrieger@hsph.harvard.edu

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Sir—In recent years, social epidemiologists have brought to the fore two seemingly new observations:

  1. a socioeconomic gradient in health exists, extending from top to bottom ranks of society, not simply a poverty threshold that separates those with awful versus good health;1–2 and
  2. context and level matter: poor people living in poor neighbourhoods are likely to have poorer health than equally . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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