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"The aim of this study is to investigate the relationships between social roles, social position and health in English women using theoretically derived measures of social position. Data are taken from the Health and Lifestyle Survey, carried out between 1984±1985, and the Health Survey for England of 1993. First the paper asks whether health inequality in women is still evident when theoretically derived measures (the Erikson-Goldthorpe schema and the Cambridge scale) are used. It goes on to explore the extent to which di.erent combinations of family roles and employment circumstances might a.ect social variations in health. Finally, the paper shows that health differences between women in different combinations of social roles were not the same in 1993 as in 1984 and examines some reasons why this change may have occurred."

"This paper examines the role of behavioural and psychosocial risk and protective factors in explaining social inequalities in the general self-assessed health of women. Using path analysis, data from the Health Survey for England (1993) are used to demonstrate how different dimensions of social position (working conditions, general social advantage and material deprivation) have distinct pathways to ill-health. Smoking, diet, alcohol consumption, exercise, social support and job strain were all related to poorer health, but not always in the predicted direction. The effects of social position on health were not fully mediated through these risk and protective factors. Each dimension of social position had unique pathways to ill-health via other unidentified mechanisms. Furthermore, the salience of the three dimensions of social position differed according to the level of labour market attachment. Different path models are required to fit the data for women at home or in full-time or part-time work."