TY  - JOUR
T1  - SOcioeconomic position and mortality—reply
AU  - Singh-Manoux A, Stringhini S
Y1  - 2010/07/21
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2010.986
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 270
EP  - 271
VL  - 304
IS  - 3
N2  - 
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.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2010.986
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2010.986
ER  -