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[What impact do social inequalities have on health status in Norway?]
1Forskningsstiftelsen FAFO, Oslo.
Objective:
To examine the joint effects of social class, education and income on self-reported ill health.
Setting:
A nationwide representative sample of employed adult Norwegians.
Material:
2,134 employed Norwegians aged 20-64 years derived from the 1991 Survey of Level of Living. Three measures of ill health were studied: Long-standing somatic illness, reduced work potential because of long-standing somatic illness, and mental health.
Methods:
The relationships between the health outcomes and the socioeconomic indicators were modelled by means of multiple logistic regression.
Conclusion:
Among the selected socioeconomic indicators, occupational class appeared to be the most important predictor of ill health.
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