In a context where epidemiologic research has been heavily influenced by a biomedical and
individualistic approach, the naming of “social epidemiology” allowed explicit emphasis on …

Background Socioeconomic disadvantage is a fundamental cause of morbidity and
mortality. One of the most important ways that governments buffer the adverse …

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This article directs attention to the significance, for health promotion advocates, of reflecting
on how “problems” are constituted, or brought into existence, as particular sorts of problems …

Background In this article we outline Burden of Treatment Theory, a new model of the
relationship between sick people, their social networks, and healthcare services. Health …

This book explores the complex relationship between public health research and policy,
employing tobacco control and health inequalities in the UK as contrasting case studies. It …

Research into the role of place in shaping inequalities in health has focused largely on
examining individual and/or localised drivers, often using a context-composition framing …

Background The concept of “intersectionality” is increasingly employed within public health
arenas, particularly in North America, and is often heralded as offering great potential to …

Background Inequalities in the distribution of the social determinants of health are now a
widely recognised problem, seen as requiring immediate and significant action (CSDH …

Informed by a wealth of available research, between 1997 and 2010, the UK Labour
government introduced a raft of policies to reduce health inequalities. Despite this, by most …