Class and health: comparing Britain and Sweden |
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| Authors: | O Lundberg |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Health and Human Development, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA;2. Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center for the Promotion of Human Development, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA;3. Department of Foods and Nutrition, College of Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA;2. Oxford University Clinical Academic Graduate School, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom;3. Department of Plastic Surgery, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Trust, Norwich, United Kingdom;4. Department of Plastic Surgery, Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, Hull, United Kingdom;5. Department of Anatomy and Human Sciences, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom;1. Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA;2. Department of Surgery, University of Cincinatti School of Medicine, USA;3. Department of Surgery, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Society of Black Academic Surgeons Liaison, USA;4. Department of Surgery, Crozer Health System, Latino Surgical Society Liaison, USA;5. Department of Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Society of Asian Academic Surgeons Liaison, USA;6. Breast Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA;1. Department of Statistical Science, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy;2. Department of Medicine, University of Perugia, Italy;3. Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Perugia, Italy;4. Department of Political Science, University of Perugia, Italy;1. Department of Clinical Pharmacology, St. Olav University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway;2. Department of Laboratory Medicine, Children’s and Women’s Health, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway;3. Regional Centre for Child and Youth Mental Health and Child Welfare—Central Norway, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway;4. SINTEF Technology and Society, Department of Transport Research, Trondheim, Norway;5. National Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway and Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway |
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| Abstract: | The questions addressed in this articles are two, namely (1) are class differences in health apparent in Sweden in the same manner as was shown for Britain in the Black Report? and (2) is it possible to learn anything new about inequality patterns in different stages of life from analyses of self-reported morbidity data?By analysing data on long-standing illness by the means of logistic regression, it is shown that the risk of falling ill is distributed in very similar ways in the two countries, although the dispersion of these risk factors seems to be greater in Britain. In an analysis of acute sickness this result is not obtained, which is assumed to be an effect of differences in answering patterns. For Sweden, it is shown that social classes do not differ much in terms of health among the young. Instead, inequalities in health seem to be established at first in middle age. |
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