Social determinants of health and disease
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In Chapter 1, evidence was presented to indicate that the improvements in health observed during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were the product of rising standards of living and sanitary reform. This illustrates the general principle that the health of a population is closely tied to the physical, social and economic environment. This chapter expands on this point of view by examining some of the social factors that have been linked to health and disease. Over the past 40 years research in this field has grown significantly, with relatively new disciplines such as social epidemiology and psychophysiology devoted to the investigation of the links between the social environment, psychological and emotional states, physiological change and disease. The broad implication of this work, and the view of health it embodies, is that health and illness are social, as well as medical, issues.
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تاریخ انتشار 2008