Health inequalities in British men: the impact of socio-economic circumstances at different stages of the life course.

联合王国的健康不平等现象仍然显著;减少不平等现象是一项重要的公共卫生优先事项。对老年人健康不平等的研究很少，社会经济地位影响健康的途径仍然不完全清楚。本研究的目的是调查健康的社会梯度是否随着年龄的增长而下降或扩大，并研究在生命历程的不同阶段以及在个人和地区层面上运作的社会经济因素的重要性。它还将设法确定社会经济地位影响健康的途径。这项研究将使用一项大型的英国队列研究，其中包括在几个时间点获得的有关社会经济和生活方式因素以及生物措施的广泛信息。了解在生命的不同阶段起作用的社会因素的相对重要性、个人和地区因素的相对重要性以及健康行为和生物风险标志在健康的社会差异发展中的重要性，将有助于确定公共卫生战略，以减少未来健康方面的社会经济不平等。

Health inequalities in the UK remain marked; their reduction is an important public health priority. Health inequalities in the older population have been little studied and the pathways by which socio-economic status affects health remains incompletely understood. The purpose of this research is to investigate whether social gradients in health decline or widen with age and to examine the importance of socio-economic factors operating at different stages of the life course and at individual and area level. It will also seek to define the pathways by which socio-economic status affects health. The research will use a large and established British cohort study with a wide range of information on socio-economic and lifestyle factors and biological measures obtained at several time points. Understanding the relative importance of social factors operating at different stages of life, the relative importance of individual and area factors and the importance of health behaviours and biological risk markers in the development of social variations in health, will help to define public health strategies to reduce socio-economic inequalities in health in the future.