Application of social epidemiology in health research
ZHU Ai-ai
CAO Cheng-jian
FANG-Le
Abstract：Social epidemiology is an interdisciplinary study of the social distribution of population health and the impact of social factors on population health.It is a subdiscipline of epidemiology;it has been some research progress abroad and applied in areas such as chronic disease research.The opening of courses is still in the early stage and introduction stage in China; there are currently three basic theoretical frameworks which are psychosocial theory, causal Directed Acyclic Graphs and ecosocial theory and related multi-level frameworks, and each theoretical framework is based on a hypothesis.To introduce the system of social epidemiology, the author consulted the Chinese knowledge network database, Wanfang medical journal database, and Weipu journal database.This paper reviewed the definition, domestic and international application status, three basic theoretical frameworks to introduce social epidemiology.Based on social epidemiology focusing on social factors, this study reviewed its specific applications in China in the fields of elderly health research, AIDS prevention research and psychological research (especially suicide research).
Keywords：social epidemiologyhealth researchapplication
Publication Date：2019-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 201-204 )