Morbidity and social structure

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During the post-war decades the Finnish social structure has undergone a deep and rapid change from an agriculturally dominated society to an industrial and post-industrial society. Self-reported long-standing morbidity in Finland is described against this background using data from four national health surveys in 1964, 1968, 1976, and 1987. The analyses were restricted to economically active people. The general level of morbidity among these people has not changed significantly. ‘Global inequality’ in morbidity based on prevalence in social classes as well as the size of these classes has decreased, but this levelling off is largely due to changes in the social structure, primarily, a decline in the size of the farming population. Taking into account health-related mobility out of the labour market also shows less equalization than is apparent from the analyses presented in this article.

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