Category: Cardiovascular Disease

The relationship between socioeconomic position and cardiovascular mortality is one of the most robust findings in all of epidemiology. It has been replicated in every country where the data exists to examine it, across multiple measures of socioeconomic status, across different health systems, and across different time periods. And in Europe, despite decades of medical…

In 1980, the Black Report — commissioned by the UK government and promptly suppressed — documented systematic differences in health outcomes between social classes in Britain that could not be explained by healthcare access, individual behaviour, or genetics alone. The report’s authors concluded that the primary drivers of health inequality were material: income, housing, working…