Social determinants and the classification of disease: descriptive epidemiology of selected socially mediated disease constellations.

Social determinants and the classification of disease: descriptive epidemiology of selected socially mediated disease constellations.

Most major diseases have important social determinants. In this context, classification of disease based on etiologic or anatomic criteria may be neither mutually exclusive nor optimal.Units of analysis comprised large metropolitan central and fringe metropolitan counties with reliable mortality rat...

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Main Authors: Robert S Levine, Barbara A Kilbourne, George S Rust, Michael A Langston, Baqar A Husaini, Lisaann S Gittner, Maureen Sanderson, Charles H Hennekens
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4220931?pdf=render

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