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Explanations of social class and health This view argues that inequalities in health do not exist but that they are socially constructed and as such a product of the measuring devices that sociologists use. Halso argues that fewer people are in the working class due to the technological revolution. This is called Artefact. The black report argues that poor progress in health applies to wide sections of the working class. People who experience poor health find it difficult to get a jobs, and therefore is a vicious circle, not just with the individual, but as a society. This is social selection. Mormot etal (1984) found that amongst those with no detectable diseases at the start of career there were still greater death rates amongst men in the lower grades of civil service. Behavioural/Cultural explanation of social class and health inequalities blames the person because of life style, e.g. working people smoke and drink...

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