RT Journal
A1 Singh-Manoux A, Stringhini S
T1 SOcioeconomic position and mortality—reply
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2010
FD July 21
VO 304
IS 3
SP 270
OP 271
DO 10.1001/jama.2010.986
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2010.986
AB 
The Black Report, commissioned by the Department of Health in the United Kingdom in 1977, was the first comprehensive review of evidence in this domain.1 It identified 4 theoretical explanations for social inequalities: artifactual, natural or social selection, materialist/structural, and cultural/behavioral. Subsequent research has attempted to examine (and promote) the relative importance of one pathway over another, with little consensus.2 In the last decade or so, there has been a surge of interest in neighborhood studies, with increasing recognition of the methodological challenges and the need to identify the causal chain linking exposure to outcome.3 Exposure to environmental toxins and air pollution is likely to contribute to health disparities. Unfortunately, we have no data on air pollution.