Table of Contents

Foreword
Leonard Syme

Chapter 1
A Historical Framework for Social Epidemiology: Social Determinants of Population Health
Lisa F. Berkman and Ichiro Kawachi

Chapter 2
Socioeconomic Status and Health
M. Maria Glymour, Mauricio Avendano, and Ichiro Kawachi

Chapter 3
Discrimination and Health Inequities
Nancy Krieger

Chapter 4
Income Inequality
Ichiro Kawachi and SV Subramanian

Chapter 5
Working Conditions and Health
Lisa F. Berkman, Ichiro Kawachi, And Töres Theorell

Chapter 6
Labor Markets, Employment Policies, and Health
Mauricio Avendano and Lisa F. Berkman

Chapter 7
Social Network Epidemiology
Lisa F. Berkman and Aditi Krishna

Chapter 8
Social Capital, Social Cohesion, and Health
Ichiro Kawachi and Lisa F. Berkman

Chapter 9
Affective States and Health
Laura D. Kubzansky, Ashley Winning, and Ichiro Kawachi

Chapter 10
Changing Health Behaviors in a Social Context
Cassandra Okechukwu, Kirsten Davison, and Karen Emmons

Chapter 11
Experimental Psychosocial Interventions
Thomas A. Glass, Amii M. Kress, and Lisa F. Berkman

Chapter 12
Policies as Tools for Research and Translation in Social Epidemiology
M .Maria Glymour

Chapter 13
Applications of Behavioral Economics to Improve Health
Ichiro Kawachi

Chapter 14
Biological Pathways Linking Social Conditions and Health: Plausible Mechanisms and Emerging Puzzles
Laura D. Kubzansky, Teresa E. Seeman, M .Maria Glymour

Chapter 15
From Science to Policy
Michael Marmot and Jessica Allen

About the Author

Lisa F. Berkman, PhD, is the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy, Epidemiology, and Global Health and Population at the Harvard School of Public Health. She is the Director of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies.

Ichiro Kawachi, MD, PhD, is Professor of Social Epidemiology and Chair of the Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard School of Public Health, where he has taught for over 20 years.

M. Maria Glymour, ScD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco, where she directs the PhD program in Epidemiology and Translational Sciences.

Reviews

"An extraordinary work of scholarship. Its excellence provides assurance that it will become a classic." -Leon Eisenberg, New England Journal of Medicine
"[Social Epidemiology] is brilliant." -Journal of Public Health Medicine
"In providing a resource that explicates the social determinants of illness and helps the reader to understand the impact of social organization and structure of health and access to healthcare, the editors make this book a valuable contribution to the literature on psychosocial epidemiology." -Doody's
"Provocative and stimulating... a great resource." -International Journal of Epidemiology
"An important book, and a critical and timely addition to the field." -The Epidemiology Monitor
"The seminal textbook in the field." -- American Journal of Epidemiology