Genetics and health inequalities: hypotheses and controversies
January 2005
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This article reviews the current understanding of the explanation of socioeconomic inequalities in health in industrialised countries and then tries to determine where genetic factors could fit into explanatory schemes. It focuses on the explanation of socioeconomic inequalities in frequency of the main health problems of middle and old age.
Keywords
- Aged
- Humans
- Middle aged
- *Social Class
- Phenotype
- *Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genotype
- Socioeconomic Factors
- *Health Status
- Biomedical Research
- Ethics, Research
Automatically Extracted Terms
- health
- health inequalities
- inequality
- research
- determinant
- mobility
- factor
- explanation
- selection
- genetic
- status
- study
- intelligence
- difference
- perspective
- genotype
- disease
- attribute
- group
- association
