TY - JOUR
AU - J V Quint and B R Cody
AB -  ill comparison with similar earlier investigations4'5 shows a considerable reduction in the mortality in a number of occupational groups, reflecting the greatly improved working environment and increasingly middle-class ways of life in many occupations which, a generation ago, were often characterized by unfavorable working conditions and low income. For example, over the last four decades the mortality of laborers in general construction declined from 229 to 119 per cent of that among standard insurance risks. Similarly, the mortality of freight handlers, section and track workers, yard and other railroad industry unskilled workers dropped from 177 to 135 per cent. Pointing in the same direction is the mortality experience among policyholders in the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. In the year 1939, the mortality rate among industrial policyholders was one and a half times that of standard ordinary policyholders but, in 1964, the ratio dropped to one and a quarter. These two classes of policyholders represent broadly different socioeconomic strata. Standard ordinary policyholders are drawn chiefly from urban middle and well-to-do classes engaged in occu. VOL. 60, NO. 6. A.J.P.H. LONGEVITY OF PROMINENT MEN pations such as the professions, business, trade and clerical work. Included also are a high proportion 
TI - Preeminence and mortality: longevity of prominent men.
JF - American Journal of Public Health
DA - 1970-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/american-public-health-association/preeminence-and-mortality-longevity-of-prominent-men-rg3BxNc7ec
VL - 60
IS - 6
DP - DeepDyve
ER -