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a Institute
of Preventive Medicine, Kommunehospitalet, DK-1399 Copenhagen K,
Denmark, b Department of
Respiratory Medicine 129, H:S Hvidovre Hospital, DK-2650 Hvidovre,
Denmark
Correspondence to: Dr E Prescott.
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Socioeconomic status, whether measured by education, income, or other indices of social class, has long been known to be associated with mortality from different diseases.1-7 This knowledge for the major part stems from studies conducted in the UK where there is a tradition of interest in socioeconomic differences. A milestone within recent years was the "Black Report" prepared by a committee appointed by the UK Minister of Health in 1980.7 This report showed that there were still large socioeconomic differences in morbidity and mortality in men and women of all ages in England. Since then a number of epidemiological studies have been published, both in England and other European and North American countries, which confirm this relationship.8-12
Socioeconomic differences have been shown to exist for a number of
diseases including ischaemic heart disease, many types of cancer,
respiratory diseases and, in particular, mortality related to alcohol
and violence. In addition,
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