Social Class

"Social Class" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A stratum of people with similar position and prestige; includes social stratification. Social class is measured by criteria such as education, occupation, and income.

Descriptor ID	D012923
MeSH Number(s)	I01.880.853.996.755 N01.824.782
Concept/Terms	Social Class Social Class Class, Social Classes, Social Social Classes Socioeconomic Status Socioeconomic Status Status, Socioeconomic Middle Class Population Middle Class Population Class Population, Middle Class Populations, Middle Middle Class Populations Population, Middle Class Populations, Middle Class Caste Caste Castes

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Social Class".

Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena [I]
Social Sciences [I01]
Sociology [I01.880]
Sociological Factors [I01.880.853]
Socioeconomic Factors [I01.880.853.996]
Social Class [I01.880.853.996.755]
Health Care [N]
Population Characteristics [N01]
Socioeconomic Factors [N01.824]
Social Class [N01.824.782]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is related to "Social Class".

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Social Class".

Social Class
Social Mobility

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Social Class" by people in this website by year, and whether "Social Class" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

Bar chart showing 192 publications over 29 distinct years, with a maximum of 19 publications in 2011

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1995	0	1	1
1996	1	1	2
1997	0	1	1
1998	0	1	1
1999	0	1	1
2001	0	1	1
2002	1	2	3
2003	2	4	6
2004	1	2	3
2005	4	6	10
2006	5	2	7
2007	2	7	9
2008	3	4	7
2009	1	4	5
2010	2	5	7
2011	8	11	19
2012	4	9	13
2013	4	4	8
2014	11	5	16
2015	3	4	7
2016	3	7	10
2017	5	10	15
2018	6	4	10
2019	5	7	12
2020	1	1	2
2021	3	2	5
2022	1	6	7
2023	0	2	2
2024	2	0	2

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Maunakea AK, Phankitnirundorn K, Peres R, Dye C, Juarez R, Walsh C, Slavens C, Park SL, Wilkens LR, Le Marchand L. Socioeconomic Status, Lifestyle, and DNA Methylation Age Among Racially and Ethnically Diverse Adults: NIMHD Social Epigenomics Program. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Jul 01; 7(7):e2421889.

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Ononogbu O, Akindele O, Yazdanfard S, Fatima B, Abughosh S, Trivedi MV. Immunomodulator adherence in multiple myeloma patients with lower socioeconomic status: a retrospective study. Support Care Cancer. 2024 Jun 04; 32(7):407.

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Fanfan D, Mulligan CJ, Groer M, Mai V, Weaver M, Huffman F, Lyon DE. The intersection of social determinants of health, the microbiome, and health outcomes in immigrants: A scoping review. Am J Biol Anthropol. 2024 01; 183(1):3-19.

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Edgar EV, Eschman B, Todd JT, Testa K, Ramirez B, Bahrick LE. The effects of socioeconomic status on working memory in childhood are partially mediated by intersensory processing of audiovisual events in infancy. Infant Behav Dev. 2023 08; 72:101844.

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Adinkrah E, Najand B, Rahmani A, Maharlouei N, Ekwegh T, Cobb S, Zare H. Social Determinants of Mental, Physical, and Oral Health of Middle-Aged and Older African Americans in South Los Angeles. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 12 14; 19(24).

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Ji X, Covington LB, Patterson F, Ji M, Brownlow JA. Associations between sleep and overweight/obesity in adolescents vary by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status. J Adv Nurs. 2023 May; 79(5):1970-1981.

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Obrochta CA, Parada H, Murphy JD, Nara A, Trinidad D, Araneta MRH, Thompson CA. The impact of patient travel time on disparities in treatment for early stage lung cancer in California. PLoS One. 2022; 17(10):e0272076.

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Nnorom SO, Akinyemi O, Tran J, Baig H, Cornwell EE, Frederick WA, Wilson LL. Color or money?: The impact of socioeconomic status and race/ethnicity on breast cancer mortality. Am J Surg. 2022 Dec; 224(6):1403-1408.

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DeRouen MC, Tao L, Shariff-Marco S, Yang J, Shvetsov YB, Park SY, Albright CL, Monroe KR, Le Marchand L, Wilkens LR, Gomez SL, Cheng I. Neighborhood Obesogenic Environment and Risk of Prostate Cancer: The Multiethnic Cohort. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2022 05 04; 31(5):972-981.

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Nnorom SO, Baig H, Akinyemi OA, Tran JH, Harris J, Sidhom F, Frederick WA, Cornwell EE, Wilson LL. Persistence of Disparity in Thyroid Cancer Survival After Adjustments for Socioeconomic Status and Access. Am Surg. 2022 Jul; 88(7):1484-1489.

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