Determinants of Health

There is widespread recognition that the most powerful determinants of health today are to be found in social, economic and cultural circumstances. These include: economic growth, income distribution, consumption, work organisation, unemployment and job insecurity, social and family structure, education and deprivation, and they are all aspects of social organisation.

Health and Social Organisation

In Health and Social Organisation leading British and North American researchers who bring together an invaluable collection of data on these issues, draw from the social sciences, epidemiology and biology.