Inequality in disease
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Social epidemiology focuses on the patterns in morbidity and mortality rates that emerge as a result of social characteristics. While an individual's lifestyle choices or family history may place him or her at an increased risk for developing certain illnesses, there are social inequalities in health that cannot be explained by individual factors.
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See also
- Health equity
- Social determinants of health
- Social determinants of health in poverty
- Social determinants of obesity
- Social epidemiology
- Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?
- Hygiene hypothesis
- Diseases of affluence
- Diseases of poverty
- Public health
- Typhus ยง History
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