Europe is a highly urbanised continent. The consequent loss and degradation of urban and
peri-urban green space could adversely affect ecosystems as well as human health and well …

Despite recent declines in mortality, cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death
in the United States today. It appears that many of the major risk factors for coronary disease …

We invite you to join us for this book's journey through the exciting field of community
psychology! As a team of authors, we each came to community psychology because it …

This glossary presents a comprehensive list of indicators of socioeconomic position used in
health research. A description of what they intend to measure is given together with how …

The Whitehall study of British civil servants begun in 1967, showed a steep inverse
association between social class, as assessed by grade of employment, and mortality from a …

Among the developed countries it is not the richest societies which have the best health, but
those which have the smallest income differences between rich and poor. Inequality and …

Problems with measuring socioeconomic status (SES)—frequently included in clinical and
public health studies as a control variable and less frequently as the variable (s) of main …

How do we understand mental health problems in their social context? A former BMA
Medical Book of the Year award winner, this book provides a sociological analysis of major …

Context.—A prominent hypothesis regarding social inequalities in mortality is that the
elevated risk among the socioeconomically disadvantaged is largely due to the higher …

In this book, pioneering social epidemiologist Richard Wilkinson, shows how inequality
affects social relations and well-being. In wealthy countries, health is not simply a matter of …