A socially patterned epidemic of deaths of despair is a signal feature of American society in
the twenty-first century, involving rising mortality from substance use disorders and self-harm …

Socioeconomic status (SES) underlies three major determinants of health: health care,
environmental exposure, and health behavior. In addition, chronic stress associated with …

Suicide and premature death due to coronary heart disease, violence, accidents, drug or
alcohol abuse are strikingly male phenomena, particularly in the young and middle-aged …

Setting out the debates and reviewing the evidence that links health outcomes with social
and physical environments, this new edition of the well-established text offers an accessible …

Some Russians are healthier than others. To what extent does their health vary with
involvement or exclusion from social capital networks? The first section reviews alternative …

Abstract “Modern epidemiology” has a primary orientation to the study of multiple risk factors
for chronic noncommunicable diseases. If epidemiologists are to understand the …

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In memory of my parents, William Stewart White and Margaret Ann White (née Doyle), and for …

Background Over the last five decades, a wide gap in mortality opened between western
and eastern Europe; this gap increased further after the dramatic fluctuations in mortality in …

This study examined the association between perceived control and several socioeconomic
variables and self-rated health in seven post-communist countries (Russia, Estonia …

Gender equity is increasingly identified as one of the goals of health policy at both national
and international levels. However, the precise meaning of the term is not always clear. Are …