After teaching a group of students about the socioeconomic gradient in health, the instructor determines that the students understand the concept when they state that the relationship between social class and health is:

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The socioeconomic gradient refers to the inverse relationship between social class or income and health, such that the lower the social class or income, the higher the rates of disease. If it were a direct relationship, a change with one variable will likely show a corresponding change in the other. This type of relationship can also be referred to as a positive relationship because this corresponding change in the other variable is typically in the same direction. In an unequal relationship, distribution is not equal.

After Teaching a Group of Students About the Socioeconomic Gradient