The long history of health inequality in New Zealand: occupational class and lifespan in the late 1800s and early 1900s

• Main Authors: Nick Wilson (Author), Christine Clement (Author), Matt Boyd (Author), Andrea Teng (Author), Alistair Woodward (Author), Tony Blakely (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Objective: As relatively little is known about how socioeconomic position might have affected health prior to the Second World War, we aimed to study lifespan by occupational class in two cohorts in New Zealand. Methods: The first study included men on the electoral rolls in Dunedin in the...