This book is a comprehensive resource that provides a new perspective on the influence of social structures on health.

A Sociological Approach to Health Determinants investigates how 'the social' works in determining health and health inequity. Taking a global perspective, the b

The World Health Organization defines the social determinants of health as "the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and the wider se

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In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differenc