Rethinking social epidemiology
Subtitle: towards a science of change
By: Patricia O'Campo, James R. Dunn, editors
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Dordrecht; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9789400721371; 9789400721388
Subjects: Social aspects; Social Medicine; Socioeconomic Factors; Social medicine; Social Change; Epidemiology; Health Status Disparities; Epidemiologic Methods
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Explanations, philosophy and theory in health inequalities research: towards a critical realist approach; title: Values and social epidemiologic research; title: Population-based data and community empowerment; title: Differences that matter; title: Context; title: Place-based stress and chronic disease: a systems view of environmental determinants; title: How goes the neighbourhood? Rethinking neighbourhoods and health research in social epidemiology; title: Application of two schools of social theory to neighbourhood, place and health research; title: Locating politics in social epidemiology; title: Research tools in action; title: Structural violence and structural vulnerability within the risk environment: theoretical and methodological perspectives for a social epidemiology of HIV risk among injection drug users and sex workers; title: Realist review methods for complex health problems; title: Addressing health equalities in social epidemiology: learning from evaluation(s); title: Making a difference; title: Knowledge translation and social epidemiology: taking power, politics and values seriously; title: Community-academic partnerships and social change; title: Producing more relevant evidence: applying a social epidemiology research agenda to public health practice.