Methods in Social Epidemiology (Public Health/Epidemiology and Biostatistics)

Methods in Social Epidemiology provides students and professionals with a comprehensive reference for studying the social distribution and social determinants of health. Covering the theory, models, and methods used to measure and analyze these phenomena, this book serves as both an introduction to the field and a practical manual for data collection and analysis. This new second edition has been updated to reflect the field's tremendous growth in recent years, including advancements in statistical modeling and study designs. New chapters delve into genetic methods, structural cofounding, selection bias, network methods, and more, including new discussion on qualitative data collection with disadvantaged populations.

Social epidemiology studies the way society's innumerable social interactions, both past and present, yields different exposures and health outcomes between individuals within populations. This book provides a thorough, detailed overview of the field, with expert guidance toward the real-world methods that fuel the latest advances.

• Identify, measure, and track health patterns in the population
• Discover how poverty, race, and socioeconomic factors become risk factors for disease
• Learn qualitative data collection techniques and methods of statistical analysis
• Examine up-to-date models, theory, and frameworks in the social epidemiology sphere

As the field continues to evolve, researchers continue to identify new disease-specific risk factors and learn more about how the social system promotes and maintains well-known exposure disparities. New technology in data science and genomics allows for more rigorous investigation and analysis, while the general thinking in the field has become more targeted and attentive to causal inference and core assumptions behind effect identification. It's an exciting time to be a part of the field, and Methods in Social Epidemiology provides a solid reference for any student, researcher, or faculty in public health.

《社會流行病學方法》是一本全面的實用參考書，探討了健康結果背後的社會模式。本書為學生和專業人士提供了一個全面的參考資料，用於研究健康的社會分佈和社會決定因素。本書涵蓋了用於測量和分析這些現象的理論、模型和方法，既是該領域的入門指南，也是數據收集和分析的實用手冊。本次更新的第二版反映了該領域近年來的巨大增長，包括統計建模和研究設計的進展。新的章節深入探討了基因方法、結構性混淆、選擇偏差、網絡方法等，還包括對弱勢群體的定性數據收集的新討論。

社會流行病學研究了社會無數的社會互動，無論是過去還是現在，都會在個體之間產生不同的暴露和健康結果。本書提供了對該領域的全面而詳細的概述，並提供對推動最新進展的實際方法的專家指導。

- 在人口中識別、測量和追蹤健康模式
- 發現貧困、種族和社會經濟因素如何成為疾病的風險因素
- 學習定性數據收集技術和統計分析方法
- 檢視社會流行病學領域中最新的模型、理論和框架

隨著該領域的不斷發展，研究人員不斷確定新的疾病特定風險因素，並更多地了解社會體系如何促進和維持已知的暴露差異。數據科學和基因組學的新技術使得進一步的調查和分析更加嚴謹，同時該領域的普遍思維更加注重因果推斷和效應識別背後的核心假設。現在是參與該領域的一個令人興奮的時刻，《社會流行病學方法》為公共衛生領域的任何學生、研究人員或教職員提供了可靠的參考資料。