Social determinants of health
by
 
Marmot, M. G.

Title
Social determinants of health

Author
Marmot, M. G.

ISBN
9780198565895

Edition
2nd ed.

Publication Information
Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2006.

Physical Description
x, 366 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

General Note
1st ed. published: Copenhagen : World Health Organization, 1998.

Contents
Social organization, stress, and health / Early life / The life course, the social gradient, and health / Health and labour market disadvantage: unemployment, non-employment, and job insecurity / Health and the psychosocial environment at work / Transport and health / Social support and social cohesion / Food is a political issue / Poverty, social exclusion, and minorities / Social patterning of individual health behaviours: the case of cigarette smoking / The social determination of ethnic/racial inequalities in health / Social determinants of health in older age / Neighbourhoods, housing, and health / Social determinants, sexual behaviour, and sexual health / Ourselves and others - for better or worse: social vulnerability and inequality

Abstract
1. Introduction; 2. Social organization, stress and health; 3. Early life; 4. The life course, the social gradient and health; 5. Health and labour market disadvantage: unemployment, non-employment and job insecurity; 6. Health and the psychosocial environment at work; 7. Transport and health; 8. Social supoort and social cohesion; 9.

Subject Term
Public health -- Social aspects.
 
Social medicine.
 
Medical policy -- Social aspects.

Added Author
Marmot, M. G.
 
Wilkinson, Richard G.


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