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While epidemiology is defined as the study of the distribution and determinants of disease and typically treats social determinants as background to biomedical phenomena, social epidemiology is a sphere of enquiry in its own right. It is distinguished by explicitly investigating social determinants of population distributions of health, disease, and well-being. Social epidemiology was perhaps first coined as a discipline in the 1950s; postgraduate programs in social epidemiology are now offered.
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Berkman, L., & Kawachi, I. (Eds.). (2000). Social epidemiology. New York: Oxford University Press.
Krieger, N. (2001). A glossary for social epidemiology. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 55(10), 693–700.
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Batty, G.D. (2017). Social Epidemiology. In: Gellman, M., Turner, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6439-6_494-2
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