Social comparisons, health and well-being

Andrew Clark

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Abstract: Health and well-being are socially determined. One of the ways in which this comes about is via social comparisons with other individuals in the same personal, geographic or social networks, with the comparisons referring either to income or other aspects of economic and social life. The existence of such comparison effects with respect to income may help to explain the social gradient in health.

Keywords: Well-being; Comparisons; Income; Unemployment; Divorce; Religion; Social health gradient (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-08
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Published in Epidemiology and Public Health = Revue d'Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique, 2013, 61 (S3), pp.S184-S188. ⟨10.1016/j.respe.2013.04.003⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.respe.2013.04.003

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