Social Conditions as Fundamental Causes of Health Inequalities: Theory and Evidence
Course ObjectivesCourse Objective
- Identify the fundamental causes of health inequalities.
- Describe the research evidence regarding the association between social conditions and health/mortality.
- Explain how policy and public health practice can address the fundamental causes of health inequalities.
Date: January 6, 2015
Reviewed June 30, 2020
Presenter:
Bruce G. Link, PhD
Co-Director, Center for Social Inequalities and Health
Director, Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
In this webinar, participants are given an introduction to the social determinants of health that underlie health disparities and the mechanism for the associations between social determinants of health and poor health outcomes.
