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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"social epidemiology"”.
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A social epidemiology of foodwork and home-prepared food
… ‘home-prepared’. This thesis aims to present a social epidemiology of foodwork and home-prepared food consumption, using nationally representative data from UK adults to: 1) Investigate how a ‘lack’ of time, in the form of competing demands on and other uses for time, is associated with time …
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The social epidemiology of tuberculosis in South Africa : a multilevel analysis
… focus on those variables that reflect the social setting in which an individual lives. It then conducts a multilevel analysis of South African data from the 1998 South African Demographic and Health Survey and the 1996 national census to evaluate individual-, household -and community-level …
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Applying an intersectional approach on measuring gender as a social determinant of health in social epidemiology
… inequalities have historically been a focus of social epidemiology. However, gender analysis in these investigations has been limited to sex-specific or sensitive analyses, thereby neglecting gender as a socially constructed, multidimensional concept. The emergence of intersectionality as a …
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The Geography of Farmworker Health: A Mixed-Method Exploratory Analysis of Chronic Disease
… people because of their precarious work and low social status, migratory and seasonal farmworkers (MSFW) are a critical and underappreciated component to the agriculture industry in the United States. Despite advances in knowledge of about the health needs of this population, identifying …
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Investigating practice variation in a changing primary care. A multilevel perspective on The Skaraborg Primary Care Database
Background and Aims: Differences in the clinical care of patients have been explained through the concept of practice variation, that is, the occurrence of established local medical procedures that varies between geographic areas. The primary measures introduced to eliminate undesirable differences …
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It Breaks a Man's Heart - Socioeconomic Differences in the Onset of Cardiovascular Disease in Contemporary Sweden
… which is an important obstacle in the field of social epidemiology. A common finding in this thesis is the interrelationship between different characteristics of socioeconomic status as well as correlations with other health factors. While the amount of work stress has an independent effect on …
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Ecology and emergence: Understanding factors that drive variation in process quality and clinical outcomes in general practice
… adaptive systems theory, and the disciplines of social epidemiology and health ecology. Results show that a series of discourses have strongly shaped thinking about CPV, converging around a normative 'bad apples' approach to understanding variation. However, CPV may also contribute to healthcare …
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Ecology and emergence: Understanding factors that drive variation in process quality and clinical outcomes in general practice
… adaptive systems theory, and the disciplines of social epidemiology and health ecology. Results show that a series of discourses have strongly shaped thinking about CPV, converging around a normative 'bad apples' approach to understanding variation. However, CPV may also contribute to healthcare …
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Understanding therapeutic traditions in a multilevel framework - new methodological approaches
… of new drugs in particular. We also examine social and economic conditions at different levels of analysis and the role they play in this context. We focus on the combined analyses of measures of association and of variance and clustering as this can offer original and valuable information …
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The persistence of poor diet and diet inequalities
… UK national nutrition surveys showed substantial social inequalities in diet that largely persisted from 1986 to 2012, though adherence to dietary recommendations improved over time for most population subgroups. Alongside persisting inequalities, food bank usage has risen in the UK. In an online …
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Health and justice: the capability to be healthy.
… or a level of abstraction where principles of social justice that determine the purpose, form, and scope of basic social institutions are proposed, evaluated, and justified. The argument includes 1) a conception of health as capability, 2) a theory of causation and distribution of health …
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Do Childhood Excess Weight and Family Food Insecurity Share Common Risk Factors in the Local Environment? An Examination Using a Quebec Birth Cohort
… between the place factors: material deprivation, social deprivation, social cohesion, disorder, and living location, with change in child BMI Z-score and with change in family food insecurity status in a Canadian cohort of children. Methods: The Québec Longitudinal Study of Child Development was …