Social epidemiology : strategies for public health activism /
Cwikel, Julie.
New York ; Chichester : Columbia University Press,
c2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [491]-595) and index.
Introduction to social epidemiology -- Basic concepts in health and illness -- The context for social epidemiology -- A history of public health and medicine -- The development of modern social epidemiology -- Concepts and theories in social epidemiology: the SOCEPID model -- Methods of descriptive epidemiology -- Research design for the identification of risk factors -- Program evaluation in social epidemiology -- Following social epidemiological research: then what? -- Social epidemiology applied to chronic disease: cardiovascular disease, cancer, arthritis, diabetes, and obesity -- Injury control and violence prevention -- Sexually transmitted diseases, HIV, and AIDS -- Environmental hazards, occupational health, and community exposures -- Immigrants, migrants, and special populations: new challenges in social epidemiology and applications for the future.
Social medicine.
Epidemiology