Opinion: How social status affects your health (New York Times)
December 15, 2014
Christopher von Rueden, assistant professor of leadership studies, shares how low social status can negatively affect health.
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WHAT is the relationship between social status and health?
This is a tricky question. In modern industrialized societies, health certainly improves as you move up the socioeconomic ladder, but much of that trend is a result of health care and lifestyle factors (diet, physical activity) that are associated with income — not relative social position per se.