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Title Rethinking social epidemiology : towards a science of change / Patricia O'Campo, James R. Dunn, editors
Published Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, [2012]
©2012

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Description x, 348 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Explanations, philosophy and theory in health inequalities research: towards a critical realist approach -- Values and social epidemiologic research -- Population-based data and community empowerment -- Differences that matter -- Context -- Place-based stress and chronic disease: a systems view of environmental determinants -- How goes the neighbourhood? Rethinking neighbourhoods and health research in social epidemiology -- Application of two schools of social theory to neighbourhood, place and health research -- Locating politics in social epidemiology -- Research tools in action -- Structural violence and structural vulnerability within the risk environment: theoretical and methodological perspectives for a social epidemiology of HIV risk among injection drug users and sex workers -- Realist review methods for complex health problems -- Addressing health equalities in social epidemiology: learning from evaluation(s) -- Making a difference -- Knowledge translation and social epidemiology: taking power, politics and values seriously -- Community-academic partnerships and social change -- Producing more relevant evidence: applying a social epidemiology research agenda to public health practice
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Social medicine.
Epidemiology -- Social aspects.
Epidemiologic Methods.
Social Medicine.
Health Status Disparities.
Social Justice.
Socioeconomic Factors.
Author O'Campo, Patricia.
Dunn, James R. (James Roland), 1968-
LC no. 2011939065
ISBN 9789400721371
9400721374