Nordin, Martin; Gerdtham, Ulf-G. - 2010
This study uses Swedish data to analyze why the SES-health gradient increases with ageing. Since different measures of … SES and health capture different aspects, we use this information to explore the age increase in health inequality and to … discriminate between three types of explanations, namely: i) age increase in the causal SES effect; ii) reversed health effect on …