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 97 publications over 26 distinct years, with a maximum of 9 publications in 2014

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1996	1	0	1
2001	0	3	3
2002	0	4	4
2003	1	1	2
2004	0	1	1
2005	2	4	6
2006	0	1	1
2007	0	2	2
2008	2	2	4
2009	1	6	7
2010	2	2	4
2011	3	2	5
2012	3	1	4
2013	1	3	4
2014	2	7	9
2015	0	2	2
2016	1	4	5
2017	3	0	3
2018	0	3	3
2019	2	5	7
2020	1	2	3
2021	1	7	8
2022	0	2	2
2023	2	2	4
2024	1	1	2
2025	1	0	1

Below are the most recent publications written about "Social Class" by people in Profiles.

Griswold MK, Crawford SL, Person SD, Rosenberg L, Palmer JR, Cozier YC. Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Breastfeeding Initiation and Duration Among Primiparous Black Women. Breastfeed Med. 2025 May; 20(5):310-319.

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Doan TD, Suh L, Wu M, Cherng N, Perugini R. The role of socioeconomic status in resolution of type 2 diabetes mellitus following longitudinal sleeve gastrectomy. Surg Endosc. 2025 01; 39(1):568-576.

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Call C, Oran A, O'Shea TM, Jensen ET, Frazier JA, Vaidya R, Shenberger J, Gogcu S, Msall ME, Kim S, Jalnapurkar I, Fry RC, Singh R. Health-related quality of life at age 10 years in children born extremely preterm. J Perinatol. 2024 Jun; 44(6):835-843.

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Gaalema DE, Khadanga S, Pack QR. Clinical challenges facing patient participation in cardiac rehabilitation: cigarette smoking. Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther. 2023 Jul-Dec; 21(11):733-745.

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Mar?co JL, Manafi MM, Hayman LL. Race and Ethnicity Disparities in Cardiovascular and Cancer Mortality: the Role of Socioeconomic Status-a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2025 Feb; 12(1):285-297.

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Nguyen M, Gonzalez L, Stain SC, Dardik A, Chaudhry SI, Desai MM, Boatright D, Butler PD. Association of Socioeconomic Status, Sex, Racial, and Ethnic Identity With Sustained and Cultivated Careers in Surgery. Ann Surg. 2024 Mar 01; 279(3):367-373.

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Bergstra SA, Sepriano A, Chopra A, Winchow LL, Vega-Morales D, Salomon-Escoto K, Matthijssen XME, Landew? RB. Country-level socioeconomic status relates geographical latitude to the onset of RA: a worldwide cross-sectional analysis in the METEOR registry. Ann Rheum Dis. 2023 08; 82(8):1018-1024.

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Adomfeh J, Jastrzembski BG, Oke I. Association of Race, Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Status With Visual Impairment in Adolescent Children in the US. JAMA Ophthalmol. 2022 10 01; 140(10):1006-1010.

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Wexler MG, McGean M, Tripodis Y, Tolliver D, Messmer E, Brochier A, Garg A. The Association Between Racial Discrimination, Race, and Social Class With Health Among US Children. Acad Pediatr. 2022 Sep-Oct; 22(7):1228-1236.

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Mbewe EG, Kabundula PP, Mwanza-Kabaghe S, Buda A, Adams HR, Schneider C, Potchen MJ, Mweemba M, Mathews M, Menon JA, Wang B, Baseler T, Paciorkowski A, Birbeck GL, Bearden DR. Socioeconomic Status and Cognitive Function in Children With HIV: Evidence From the HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorders in Zambia (HANDZ) Study. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2022 01 01; 89(1):56-63.

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