This sentence places two stylized facts about the recent history of population health in an
ironic relationship to one another: we know more about how to protect health, and yet …

The relative lack of attention to philosophy and theory in research on social inequalities in
health and its consequences for explanation and methodology has been described in the …

Sociology as a science is concerned with the description and explanation of societal
phenomena and processes as they affect human populations and individuals. To a large …

The association between socioeconomic status and disease has been remarkably
consistent across time and place. In particular the association has endured despite dramatic …

Exciting intellectual discoveries often happen on the boundaries between academic
disciplines. Historically, the interface between epidemiology and social science has clearly …

given outcome. He suggests that these are likely to be surface causes, rather than part of the
basic causal channelling process. The argument here is persuasive, but perhaps more …

W illiam Farr's insight into the nonrandom na-ture of health variations between nationstates
is as valid at the beginning of the twenty-first century as it was in the mid-nineteenth century …

This book assembles a wide range of explanatory perspectives on social inequalities in
health. Everywhere in the world, those with less advantage die younger and suffer more …

In the maelstrom of current public health debate over the social determinants of health, this
book offers a well-balanced discussion on the roots of prevalent strains of thought on the …

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