Social Equity and Health
Special Issue of Health Sociology Review
Volume 16 Issue 2 August 2007
ii+110 pages pages ISBN 978-0-9757422-8-0
Editor:
Toni Schofield
Behavioural and Community Health Sciences
University of Sydney NSW, Australia
Social Equity and Health alludes to several important and inter-related questions: one being the social determinants of health and the distribution of health and illness among different social groups in society; another the inequities in health and mortality as such; and third that inequities in health are caused or at least dependent on the unequal distribution of resources in our societies.
These issues are high on the international research agenda in social epidemiology and public health research, but have attracted less attention among sociologists. Still, they are closely linked to core issues in sociology, such as the interplay between social structures, individual and group-level actions and individual outcomes.
With the launch of the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health, which is 'charged with recommending interventions and policies to improve health and narrow health inequalities through action on social determinants', these issues are also put to the forefront of global health policy making.
This special issue of Health Sociology Review addresses many aspects of this broad area, covering substantive but also methodological issues of importance.
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