Social Epidemiology in Public Health

User icon Heather Dray
4 June 2024
29 items

Social determinants of population health, including acute and chronic disease outcomes, as defined and included in public health policy.


Brookings Institution · 28 September 2023 English

We examine mortality differences between Americans adults with and without a four-year college degree over the period 1992 to 2021. Mortality patterns, in aggregate and across groups, can provide evidence …



MPIDR: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research · 3 April 2023 English

The low education and low-income groups had a higher prevalence of high body fat percentage and higher mean internalizing and externalizing symptoms scores at age 13 than the high education …


CSEP: Centre for Social and Economic Progress · 7 July 2023 English

The year 2010 saw the global endorsement interpreted and adapted in different ways due of the idea of universal health coverage (UHC) that to the diversity in the socio-economic, political, …


KNOMAD: Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development · 14 December 2023 English

The 'healthy migrant effect' refers to the observation that migrants often have better health outcomes compared to non-migrants in the host country, while the latter refers to the phenomenon of …


EU: European Union · 21 February 2024 English

Climate change and environmental degradation are recognised as key existential threats to human health. The European Green Deal aims to address these threats, and its associated polices and targets act …


ORF: Observer Research Foundation · 16 February 2024 English

Introduction The World Health Organization (WHO) defines non-communicable diseases (NCDs), or chronic diseases, as illnesses of long duration and the product of a combination of genetic, physiological, environmental, and behavioural …


American Academy of Arts and Sciences · 20 November 2023 English

In fact, the high prev- alence–or overall proportion–of mental disorders in the general population of the United States has been recognized for decades, documented first in the Epi- demiologic Catchment …



NCCIH: National Collaborating Centre for Indigineous Health · 28 April 2024 English

Chapter 5 of the NCCIH’s Indigenous cultural safety: An environmental scan of cultural safety initiatives in Canada focuses on cultural safety initiatives developed and implemented by Saskatchewan and its various …