The discipline of epidemiology, which holds major influence on public health policy as well
as on clinical medical practice, has in recent decades to a large extent been concerned with …

It is perhaps ironic that an epidemiologist who has been working in the field of social
epidemiology for over a quarter of a century, and who directs a center focused on social …

As we move forward in the new century, epidemiologists and public health practitioners are
faced with the challenge of reviewing the current direction of epidemiology and its links with …

Why “social epidemiology”? Is not all epidemiology, after all,“social” epidemiology? In so far
as people are simultaneously social and biological organisms, is any biological process …

The author defines social epidemiology as that branch of epidemiology primarily concerned
with the role of social factors-such as class, gender, race/ethnicity-on the patterning of …

This is an account of the early days of research on social determinants as I experienced
them. I describe my time as one of four Fellows in a new training program in Medical …

Social epidemiology has been defined as the branch of epidemiology that studies the social
distribution and social determinants of health (Berkman and Kawachi 2000). As all aspects …

Why a thoroughly updated and revised second edition of this book about theories of disease
distribution, in past and present societal and ecological context? Because the lived realities …

The concept of social structure is one of the main building blocks of the social sciences, but it
lacks any precise technical definition within general sociological theory. This paper reviews …

Epidemiology provides a good example of the dictum that the smaller and more specialised
a particular field is, the more ferocious are the internal battles fought by the initiates. Over the …