Epidemiology & Public Health

Epidemiology and Sociology

Social epidemiology is an outlet of epidemiology that emphases particularly on the effects of social-structural factors on states of health. Social epidemiology adopts that the distribution of advantages and disadvantages in a society reflects the distribution of health and disease. It offers to identify societal features that affect the pattern of disease and health distribution in a society and to understand its mechanisms. The central and initial question of social epidemiology to be answered is what effect do social factors have on individual and population health. However, the novel focus on this theme using current epidemiological approaches is a relatively recent phenomenon.