Socio-economic differentials in health: The role of nutrition

This paper examines the role of nutrition in generating inequalities in health. While the precise role is difficult to delineate, in several cases, nutritional deficiencies or excesses which will generate health problems are socially patterned in such a way to further disadvantage the poor. This paper discusses differentials in mortality and morbidity, and their origins; social class, central obesity, and metabolism; social patterning of diet and nutrition; and life-course influences on health inequalities.

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