Social epidemiology: Social determinants of health in the United States: Are we losing ground?

Annual Review of Public Health

Volumn 30, Issue , 2009, Pages 27-41

  Berkman, Lisa F ^a  

^a HARVARD CENTER FOR POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Inequality; Life course; Population health; Randomized controlled trials; Social networks

Indexed keywords

ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACISM; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL CARE; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

CAUSALITY; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67650744865     PISSN: 01637525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.publhealth.031308.100310     Document Type: Review

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