Virgin Whore. By Emma Maggie Solberg

Examining the impact of different social class mechanisms on health inequalities: A cross-sectional analysis of an all-age UK household panel study

“…Where other studies have considered the contribution of different social class mechanisms in generating inequalities in health, the findings have been broadly similar to those identified here (Muntaner et al, 2015). For example, Muntaner and colleagues identified that economic inequality and working-class power was more strongly associated with a range of health outcomes compared to more Bourdieusian social capital measures (Muntaner et al, 2002), while several autobiographical (Eribon, 2019;Barr, 2014;Charlesworth, 1999;McGarvey, 2018), ethnographic (McKenzie, 2015 and qualitative accounts (Mackenzie et al, 2017) of social class mechanisms also speak to the interlinked nature of social class mechanisms and structural discrimination. Also in common with previous work (Whitley et al, 2018), our results demonstrate that social class across the full life-course has a marked impact on health inequalities and, although the weakest associations were generally with the most distal Early years mechanism, there were still clear inequalities even in the oldest groups.…”