Adults with higher educational attainment live healthier and longer lives compared with their
less educated peers. The disparities are large and widening. We posit that understanding …

Social support, which is the perception or experience that one is cared for, esteemed, and
part of a mutually supportive social network, has beneficial effects on mental and physical …

Research on social capital in public health is approaching its 20th anniversary. Over this
period, there have been rich and productive debates on the definition, measurement and …

Socioeconomic differences in behaviour are pervasive and well documented, but their
causes are not yet well understood. Here, we make the case that a cluster of behaviours is …

In this paper, we use a social support perspective and hypothesize that the scope of start-up
activities is positively associated with two types of instrumental family support, financial and …

Academics have shown a growing interest in the effects of resource scarcity—a discrepancy
between one's current resource levels and a higher, more desirable reference point …

Although we generally experience our bodies as being biologically stable across time and
situations, an emerging field of research is demonstrating that external social conditions …

The importance of the social environment and social inequalities in disease etiology is well-
known due to the profound research and conceptual framework on social determinants of …

▪ Abstract Socioeconomic status (SES) is one of the most widely studied constructs in the
social sciences. Several ways of measuring SES have been proposed, but most include …

This preliminary study compared the associations between objective and subjective
socioeconomic status (SES) with psychological and physical variables among 157 healthy …