Living inferiority
Open Access
- 1 June 2004
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in British Medical Bulletin
- Vol. 69 (1) , 49-60
- https://doi.org/10.1093/bmb/ldh003
Abstract
During the 1980s, class differences in life expectancy widened dramatically in England and Wales. Figures from the ONS Longitudinal Study, based on a 1% sample of the Census population, show that in the period 1972–6 life expectancy in Occupational Class I (professional occupations) was 5.5 years longer than in Occupational class V (unskilled manual occupations) for men, and 5.3 years longer for women. By 1992–6, the class gap had widened to 9.5 years for men and 6.4 years for women1. Why did this happen?Keywords
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