The Idea That People with the Lowest Social Status in Society

question 32

Multiple Choice

The idea that people with the lowest social status in society are less healthy than those in the middle or at the higher end of social status is the __________.

• A) socioeconomic gradient in health
• B) population prevention model
• C) social-trajectory model
• D) cumulative-exposure model

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Definitions:

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James I

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