Question

• What did the Whitehall Study say about socioeconomic position and overall mortality? Are the findings applicable to the present-day United States? Why or why not?

Answer 1

Whitehall Study - investigated social determinants of health specially cardiovascular disease prevalance and mortality rate among British Civil Servants . The initial prospective COHORT study, the Whitehall I study examined over 17500 male civil servants between the ages of 20 and 64, and was conducted over a perio of 10 years, in 1967. A second cohort study Whitehall II Study was conducted from 1985 to 1988 and examined the health of 10308 civil servants aged 35 to 55 of whom two third were men and other third were women. aA long term follow up study subjects from the first two phases is ongoing.

What did the Whitehall Study say about socioeconomic position and overall mortality?

The first Whitehall studyies found higher mortality rates due to all causes for men of lower employment grade. The study also reveled that a higher mortality rate specially due to coronary heart disease for men in lower employment grade when compared to men in higher grades.

Are the findings applicable to the present-day United States? Why or why not?

the study shows that there was no decrease in the diffrence in prevalance of ischemia depending upon employment category over the 20 years of study Separating Whitehall I and Whitehall II. Plasma Cholestrol concentrations did not differ by job category, and the small inverse association between job status and blood pressure in men was reduced from that seen in the Whitehall I study. There was a significant inverse relation between BMI and job status, but especially in men the diffrences were small. The risk factor that differed most between employment categories was smoking. Moderate or vigorous excercise was less common among subjects in lower status jobs. So that this study is not applicable for present day United States. Because most of the people are consuming tobaco also Govt cannot force the employees to do excercise. Its all individual choice, to select what all habits they need in daily life