Social Classification

Question 1

Anorexia

Answer 1

• social classes 1 & 2 are more prevalent in clinical samples
• younger onset in social classes 1&2
• social class, professional status and education are not associated with increase in eating disorders in the community
• degree of urbanization does have an impact on eating disorders

Question 2

British Occupational Classification

Answer 2

Class 1: Professional and Managerial
Class 2: Intermediate
Class 3: Skilled, manual, clerical
Class 4: semi-skilled
Class 5: unskilled
Clas 6: unemployed

Question 3

Bipolar disorder

Answer 3

• brothers and sisters of someone with bipolar are often higher occupational class and their family of origin is higher social class
• Tsuchiya showed that higher social class of parents with longer paternal education history and larger possession of wealth increased the risk of bipolar disorder in the offspring

Question 4

Suicide

Answer 4

• link between social class and suicide is not fully established yet
• among mentally ill, the higher the social class,the more the risk of suicide ( Silverton)

Question 5

Alcoholism

Answer 5

• defies social class boundaries

- public health policy regarding pricing and sales of alcohol seems to have the highest impact

Question 6

Jarman index

Answer 6

-measures social deprivation in a community, using census data on percentages of old people living alone, single parent families, children younger than 5, unskilled and unemployed persons, ethnic minorities, overcrowded dwellings, changes of address in the previous year etc