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Health Education Research, Vol. 1, No. 4, 247-253, 1986
© 1986 Oxford University Press

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Preventive health practices and their relationship with socio-demographic characteristics

Michael Calnan and D. R.Rutter

Health Services Research Unit and Institute of Social and Applied Psychology, University of Kent Canterbury, UK

One of the explanations for the link between social class and ill-health is that it derives from the differences in health practices between the social classes. Using data collected from interviews with a sample of 2084 women aged 45–64 living in England, the present analysis examines the relationship of social class and a range of other sociodemographic characteristics to nine types of preventive practice. The findings show a consistent and strong relationship between both social class and educational background and almost all the preventive practices. However, the strength of the relationship between the preventive practices themselves was modest. The implications of the findings are discussed, for both theory and practice.


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