Citation

Yuen P, Machin D, Balarajan R. Public Health 1990; 104(1): 65-71.

Affiliation

Epidemiology and Public Health Research Unit, University of Surrey, Guildford.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1990, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2359822

Abstract

Socioeconomic differences in self-reported chronic and acute illness were investigated in men and women using data from the General Household Surveys (1981-4). Logit models were used to investigate the influence of age, socioeconomic group, tenure, access to cars, area of residence and marital status on these measures of morbidity. For both measures local authority tenants, whether male or female, reported the most morbidity as did those with no access to cars. Both males and females reported increasing levels of illness the lower their socioeconomic group but similar patterns were not observed with acute illness. The significance of these present day inequalities is discussed.

Language: en