OBJECTIVES Prevention of disability in the ageing workforce is essential for sustaining economic growth in Europe. In order to provide information on entry points for preventive measures, it is important to better understand sociodemographic, socioeconomic and work-related determinants of disability in older employees. We aimed to test the hypothesis that low socioeconomic position and exposure...

BACKGROUND During the past two decades, several scientific publications from different countries have shown how oral health in the population varies with social determinants. The aim of the present study was to explore the relationship between self-reported oral and general health in relation to different measures of socioeconomic position. METHODS Data were collected from a randomly selected...

BACKGROUND There is evidence of an association between poor oral health and mortality. This association is usually attributed to inflammatory and nutrition pathways. However, the role of health behaviours and socioeconomic position has not been adequately examined. The aims of this study were to examine the association between oral health and premature death among middle-aged men and to test wh...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to improve understanding of the relationships between contextual socioeconomic characteristics and coronary heart disease (CHD) incidence in France. Several authors have suggested that CHD risk factors (diabetes, hypertension, cholesterol, overweight, tobacco consumption) may partly mediate associations between socioeconomic environmental variables and C...

250 in se rm -0 07 08 18 9, v er si on 1 14 J un 2 01 2 Author manuscript, published in "European Journal of Public Health 2012;:epub ahead of print" DOI : 10.1093/eurpub/cks065 Running head: Lifecourse socioeconomic position and substance use 2 Background: Social inequalities in substance use have been well-documented; however the impact of changes in socioeconomic position from childhood to a...