Commentary - Some aspects of causal relationships

The relationships between the variables measuring socio-economic status (SES) and those measuring various aspects of health and mortality were analyzed. Various causality definitions were used with statistical data, which was considered a vector of time series, for the analysis. The SES variables considered in the analysis included wealth, income, education, unsafe neighbourhoods and dwelling poor/fair. The use of association information between health and SES variables for forecasting values of health variable was also discussed.