Which statement about the relationships among income, education, occupational status, and health in the United States is true?
A) Income, education, and occupational status show strong, continuous relationships with almost every disease and health indicator over the lifespan.
B) Improving socioeconomic conditions would do little to close ethnic gaps in health because there is no evidence that SES accounts for the white health advantage.
C) Variations in health and mortality due to SES are smaller in the United States than in other industrialized nations because poor U.S. families are financially better off.
D) In the United States, SES groups experience smaller inequalities in environmental factors that affect health, such as housing, pollution, and education.
Answer: A
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