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- Title
Status Syndrome.
- Authors
Marmot, Michael G.
- Abstract
The editorial comments on public health and the socioeconomic aspects of coronary heart disease (CHD). The Whitehall Study of British Civil Servants found there is a social gradiant in mortality that relates to health in developed countries such as the United States. Explanations are given for disparities in health, including social and economic inequality. The author calls on the medical profession to take a leadership role in reducing health inequalities.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; CORONARY disease; MORTALITY; HEALTH risk assessment
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2006, Vol 295, Issue 11, p1304
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.1001/jama.295.11.1304