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ArticleSSM - population health2019

Theorising social class and its application to the study of health inequalities.

Gerry McCartney, Mel Bartley, Ruth Dundas, Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi, Rich Mitchell, Frank Popham, David Walsh, Welcome Wami

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Article in SSM - population health, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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26 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Gerry McCartneyNHS Health Scotland, 5th Floor, Meridian Court, 5 Cadogan Street, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
Mel BartleyNHS Health Scotland, 5th Floor, Meridian Court, 5 Cadogan Street, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
Ruth DundasNHS Health Scotland, 5th Floor, Meridian Court, 5 Cadogan Street, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
Srinivasa Vittal KatikireddiNHS Health Scotland, 5th Floor, Meridian Court, 5 Cadogan Street, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
Rich MitchellNHS Health Scotland, 5th Floor, Meridian Court, 5 Cadogan Street, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
Frank PophamNHS Health Scotland, 5th Floor, Meridian Court, 5 Cadogan Street, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
David WalshNHS Health Scotland, 5th Floor, Meridian Court, 5 Cadogan Street, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
Welcome WamiNHS Health Scotland, 5th Floor, Meridian Court, 5 Cadogan Street, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

Funding

Chief Scientist Office SCAF/15/02Chief Scientist Office SPHSU10Medical Research Council MC_UU_12017/10Medical Research Council MC_UU_12017/13
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The literature on health inequalities often uses measures of socio-economic position pragmatically to rank the population to describe inequalities in health rather than to understand social and economic relationships between groups. Theoretical considerations about the meaning of different measures, the social processes they describe, and how these might link to health are often limited. This paper builds upon Wright's synthesis of social class theories to propose a new integrated model for understanding social class as applied to health. This model incorporates several social class mechanisms: social background and early years' circumstances; Bourdieu's habitus and distinction; social closure and opportunity hoarding; Marxist conflict over production (domination and exploitation); and Weberian conflict over distribution. The importance of discrimination and prejudice in determining the opportunities for groups is also explicitly recognised, as is the relationship with health behaviours. In linking the different social class processes we have created an integrated theory of how and why social class causes inequalities in health. Further work is required to test this approach, to promote greater understanding of researchers of the social processes underlying different measures, and to understand how better and more comprehensive data on the range of social class processes these might be collected in the future.

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Health inequalitiesIntersectionalitySocial classSocio-economic positionTheory

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PMID31297431
PMCPMC6598164

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