Foreword
Leonard Syme
Chapter 1
A Historical Framework for Social Epidemiology: Social Determinants
of Population Health
Lisa F. Berkman and Ichiro Kawachi
Chapter 2
Socioeconomic Status and Health
M. Maria Glymour, Mauricio Avendano, and Ichiro Kawachi
Chapter 3
Discrimination and Health Inequities
Nancy Krieger
Chapter 4
Income Inequality
Ichiro Kawachi and SV Subramanian
Chapter 5
Working Conditions and Health
Lisa F. Berkman, Ichiro Kawachi, And Töres Theorell
Chapter 6
Labor Markets, Employment Policies, and Health
Mauricio Avendano and Lisa F. Berkman
Chapter 7
Social Network Epidemiology
Lisa F. Berkman and Aditi Krishna
Chapter 8
Social Capital, Social Cohesion, and Health
Ichiro Kawachi and Lisa F. Berkman
Chapter 9
Affective States and Health
Laura D. Kubzansky, Ashley Winning, and Ichiro Kawachi
Chapter 10
Changing Health Behaviors in a Social Context
Cassandra Okechukwu, Kirsten Davison, and Karen Emmons
Chapter 11
Experimental Psychosocial Interventions
Thomas A. Glass, Amii M. Kress, and Lisa F. Berkman
Chapter 12
Policies as Tools for Research and Translation in Social
Epidemiology
M .Maria Glymour
Chapter 13
Applications of Behavioral Economics to Improve Health
Ichiro Kawachi
Chapter 14
Biological Pathways Linking Social Conditions and Health: Plausible
Mechanisms and Emerging Puzzles
Laura D. Kubzansky, Teresa E. Seeman, M .Maria Glymour
Chapter 15
From Science to Policy
Michael Marmot and Jessica Allen
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.
"An extraordinary work of scholarship. Its excellence provides
assurance that it will become a classic." -Leon Eisenberg, New
England Journal of Medicine
"[Social Epidemiology] is brilliant." -Journal of Public Health
Medicine
"In providing a resource that explicates the social determinants of
illness and helps the reader to understand the impact of social
organization and structure of health and access to healthcare, the
editors make this book a valuable contribution to the literature on
psychosocial epidemiology." -Doody's
"Provocative and stimulating... a great resource." -International
Journal of Epidemiology
"An important book, and a critical and timely addition to the
field." -The Epidemiology Monitor
"The seminal textbook in the field." -- American Journal of
Epidemiology
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