Inequality in health and the class position of women - the Norwegian experience
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2250893 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Espen Dahl (0000-0002-3744-2123, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 492-505 |
| Publication date | 1991-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9566.1991.tb00524.x |
| OpenAlex | W4238366293 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 39 |
| References cited | 17 |
The paper examines whether different ways of classifying women in the socioeconomic hierarchy make a difference with regard to health. Among sociologists there has been much dispute on how to classify women in the class structure. The insights from this debate, however, have attracted negligible attention in contemporary research on social inequalities in health. Four ways of classifying women are identified and operationalized: the conventional, the individual the cross-class, and the pre-war generational approach. Using a nation-wide representative data set, their associations with a dichotomous measure of self-reported health are investigated. Logistic regression analyses show that only one approach yields significant results (p<0.05): the conventional. In this model, health is inversely associated with socioeconomic status. Possible interpretations of these results are discussed. The findings imply that the conclusions drawn in Norwegian studies of social inequalities in health and in use of health services must be questioned and should be reconsidered
Class (philosophy · Demographic economics · Economics · Epistemology · Hierarchy · Inequality · Logistic regression · Norwegian · Operationalization · Political science · Population · Position (finance · Set (abstract data type · Social class · Social inequality · Social science · Social stratification · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Statistics · Computer Science · Demography · Employment and Welfare Studies · Gender Studies · Global Health Care Issues · Health disparities and outcomes · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,18 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 2019 (27) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 36 |