E-Book Overview
Social epidemiology is the study of how social interactions—social norms, laws, institutions, conventia, social conditions and behavior—affect the health of populations. This practical, comprehensive introduction to methods in social epidemiology is written by experts in the field. It is perfectly timed for the growth in interest among those in public health, community health, preventive medicine, sociology, political science, social work, and other areas of social research.
Topics covered are:
- Introduction: Advancing Methods in Social Epidemiology
- The History of Methods of Social Epidemilogy to 1965
- Indicators of Socioeconomic Position
- Measuring and Analyzing 'Race'
- Racism and Racial Discrimination
- Measuring Poverty
- Measuring Health Inequalities
- A Conceptual Framework for Measuring Segregation and its Association with Population Outcomes
- Measures of Residential Community Contexts
- Using Census Data to Approximate Neighborhood Effects
- Community-based Participatory Research: Rationale and Relevance for Social Epidemiology
- Network Methods in Social Epidemiology
- Identifying Social Interactions: A Review, Multilevel Studies
- Experimental Social Epidemiology: Controlled Community Trials
- Propensity Score Matching Methods for Social Epidemiology
- Natural Experiments and Instrumental Variable Analyses in Social Epidemiology
- and Using Causal Diagrams to Understand Common Problems in Social Epidemiology.
''Publication of this highly informative textbook clearly reflects the coming of age of many social epidemiology methods, the importance of which rests on their potential contribution to significantly improving the effectiveness of the population-based approach to prevention. This book should be of great interest not only to more advanced epidemiology students but a