Social Epidemiology

Social epidemiology is the study of how the social world influences - and in many cases defines - the fundamental determinants of health. This link was substantiated in the first edition of Social Epidemiology, and the generation of research that followed has fundamentally changed the way we understand epidemiology and public health.

About the author

Lisa F. Berkman, PhD, is the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy, Epidemiology, and Global Health and Population at the Harvard School of Public Health. She is the Director of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies.

Ichiro Kawachi, MD, PhD, is Professor of Social Epidemiology and Chair of the Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard School of Public Health, where he has taught for over 20 years.

M. Maria Glymour, ScD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco, where she directs the PhD program in Epidemiology and Translational Sciences.

Summary

Social epidemiology is the study of how the social world influences -- and in many cases defines -- the fundamental determinants of health. This link was substantiated in the first edition of Social Epidemiology, and the generation of research that followed has fundamentally changed the way we understand epidemiology and public health.

Additional text

An important book, and a critical and timely addition to the field.

Product details

• Authors: Lisa F. Berkman, Lisa F. (EDT)/ Kawachi Berkman, Lisa F. Kawachi Berkman
• Assisted by: Lisa F. Berkman (Editor), Berkman Lisa F. (Editor), M. Maria Glymour (Editor), Maria Glymour (Editor), Glymour M. Maria (Editor), Ichiro Kawachi (Editor), Kawachi Ichiro (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.08.2014
• EAN: 9780195377903
• ISBN: 978-0-19-537790-3
• No. of pages: 640
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Epidemiology & medical statistics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, MEDICAL / Biostatistics, MEDICAL / Epidemiology, Medical Sociology, Epidemiology and Medical statistics