ed for (Kaplan, Everson, & Lynch, 2000). The direction of the relationships between socioeconomic status and health is a fundamental issue in understanding pathways leading to disparities in health: as socioeconomic status increased, health improved.
             For example, affluent women have a higher incidence of breast cancer (Mandelblatt, Andrews, Kerner, Zauber, & Burnett, p. 1384), yet they have better survival from the disease compared with socio-economically disadvantaged women (Baquet, Horm, & Gibbs, 1991, p. 555). Affluent women tend to be non-minorities and socio-economically disadvantaged women tend to be the minority group. There are several reasons why poorer people experience worse cancer survival. In the case of breast and cervical cancer, lower socioeconomic women present for medical treatment with more advanced disease than more affluent women (Gordon, Crowe, Brumberg & Berger, 1992, p. 611). The survival advantage of upper SES women may reflect, in part, earlier diagnosis. Nonetheless, according to the 1990 US National Health Interview Su
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