This document discusses social class and health inequalities. It outlines several explanations for health inequalities, including artefact, natural/social selection, cultural/behavioral, materialist/structuralist, and psychosocial explanations. However, most sociologists favor materialist/structuralist explanations that focus on poor living and working conditions rather than victim-blaming. Class is defined broadly as one's position in a system of inequality based on power, wealth and status. There are relationships between patterns of illness/mortality and social class, as working class populations experience poorer health due to living/working conditions and access to resources.