Jarron M. Saint Onge co-authors a book chapter "Health and Social Class"
Social class, or socioeconomic status (SES), has major implications for health and survival. Higher SES is consistently linked with better health. For example, those with a baccalaureate degree live about six years longer than those with secondary school degrees (Krueger et al. 2015). Social class disparities in health are substantial and persist across time, place, and generations. Low wages or poor standards of living are distressing in their own right but are especially invidious because they also diminish opportunities for long, healthy lives. (Chapter 11 In The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology, Third Edition. Edited. By W. Cockerham. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.)