TY - JOUR AU1 - Artazcoz, Lucía AU2 - Rueda, Silvia AB - 466 EDITORIAL Social inequalities in health among the elderly inequalities than broad indicators of ... ............ ............. ............ ............. .......... .. ............. ............ general health such as self-perceived health status. Beyond SEP, family roles and the Social inequalities in health among the persistence of sexual division of domestic work at older ages can be important elderly: a challenge for public health determinants of health status and gender inequalities in health. In incorporating research the gender perspective in the analysis of social determinants of health, the con- sideration of family characteristics is Lucı´a Artazcoz, Silvia Rueda crucial. Although marital status constitu- ............................................................... ....................... tes one of the most used indicators in analysing social determinants of health Health inequalities among the elderly from a gender perspective, it has been found that the association between mar- lder people have tended to be measures developed for use among work- ital status and mortality or morbidity is neglected in research on health ing-age populations, and self-perceived weaker among the elderly. Using the inequalities compared with people health status. They also support results most-frequent categories of marital status in other stages of life. Similarly, there has from other studies pointing out that the among younger TI - Social inequalities in health among the elderly: a challenge for public health research JF - Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health DO - 10.1136/jech.2006.058081 DA - 2007-06-11 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/british-medical-journal/social-inequalities-in-health-among-the-elderly-a-challenge-for-public-mzBZlaGxyH SP - 466 EP - 467 VL - 61 IS - 6 DP - DeepDyve ER -