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Social Determinants of Health

Second Edition

Edited by Michael Marmot and Richard G. Wilkinson

This book provides what is at once the most authoritative and readable overview of what research tells us about how different areas of public policy affect the health of the population. Arranged in chapters covering policy areas ranging from work and transport to food policy and sexual behavior, it shows how health is affected by the lives we lead and what policy makers can do about it.

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Published: 24 November 2005

376 Pages | 72 line illus.

ISBN: 9780198565895

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Social Determinants of Health

Second Edition

Edited by Michael Marmot and Richard G. Wilkinson

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Social Determinants of Health, 2E gives an authoritative overview of the social and economic factors which are known to be the most powerful determinants of population health in modern societies. Written by acknowledged experts in each field, it provides accessible summaries of the scientific justification for isolating different aspects of social and economic life as the primary determinants of a population's health.

The new edition takes account of the most recent research and also includes additional chapters on ethnicity and health, sexual behaviors, the elderly, housing and neighborhoods.

Recognition of the power of socioeconomic factors as determinants of health came initially from research on health inequalities. This has led to a view of health as not simply about individual behavior or exposure to risk, but how the socially and economically structured way of life of a population shapes its health. Thus exercise and accidents as as much about a society's transport system as about individual decisions; and the nation's diet involves agriculture, food manufacture, retailing, and personal incomes as much as individual choice. But a major new element in the picture we have developed is the importance of the social, or psycho-social, environment to health. For example, health in the workplace for most employees - certainly for office workers - is less a matter of exposure to physical health hazards as of the social envrionment, of how supportive it is, whether people have control over their work, whether their jobs are secure. A similar picture emerges in other areas ranging from the health importance of the emotional envrionment in early childhood to the need for more socially cohesive communities.

Social Determinants of Health, 2E should be read by those interested in the wellbeing of modern societies. It is a must for public health professionals, for health promotion specialists, and for people working in the many fields of public policy which we now know make such an important contribution to health.

Social Determinants of Health

Second Edition

Edited by Michael Marmot and Richard G. Wilkinson

Author Information

Contributors:

Mel Bartley, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK
David Blane, Department of Primary Care and Social Medicine, Imperial College, London, UK
Elizabeth Breeze, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK
Eric Brunner , Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK
Suzie Butterworth, MRC National Survey of Health and Development, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK
Jackie A Cassell, Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences, University College London, UK
George Davey Smith, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, UK
Danny Dorling, Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, UK
Jane Ferrie, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK
Alissa Goodman, Institute of Fiscal Studies, London, UK
Martin J Jarvis, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK
Anne M Johnson, Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences, University College London, UK
Mark McCarthy, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK
Anne McMunn, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK
Michael Marmot, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK
Catherine H Mercer, Centre for Sexual Health and HIV Research, University College London, UK
Scott M Montgomery, Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
James Y Nazroo, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK
Zoe Oldfield, Institute of Fiscal Studies, London, UK
Aileen Robertson, Suhr's University College of Nutrition and Health, Copenhagen, Denmark
Mary Shaw, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, UK
Aubrey Sheiham, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK
Johannes Siegrist , Department of Medical Sociology, University of Duesseldorf, Germany
Mai Stafford, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK
Stephen A Stansfeld, Centre for Psychiatry, Barts and the London, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, UK
Tores Theorell, Division of Psychosocial Factors and Health, Department of Public Health Science, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Michael Wadsworth, MRC Natrional Survey of Health and Development, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK
Jane Wardle, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UK
Richard G Wilkinson, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Nottingham Medical School, UK
David R Williams, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, USA