Skip Navigation

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 2007 2(3):159-160; doi:10.1093/scan/nsm031
This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow E-letters: Submit a response
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me when E-letters are posted
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Request Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Eisenberger, N. I.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by Eisenberger, N. I.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

© The Author (2007). Published by Oxford University Press. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

IN THIS ISSUE

Using neuroimaging techniques to explore the relationship between social status and health

Naomi I. Eisenberger

Department of Psychology
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563
USA

The first 10% of the full text of this article appears below.

In the 1980s and early 1990s, a puzzle began to emerge among those concerned with health outcomes: why do individuals with higher social status live longer and have better health than those with lower social status? In one of the most compelling demonstrations of this socioeconomic status (SES)-health gradient, Marmot and colleagues (1984) showed that, among approximately 18 000 British civil servants, men in the lowest socioeconomic group had three times the mortality rate (over a 10-year period) than those in the highest group. Moreover, these effects were not confined to those at the very top and very bottom of the SES hierarchy; rather, each step up . . . [Full Text of this Article]


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?