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International Journal of Epidemiology 2001;30:43-44
© International Epidemiological Association 2001

Point-Counterpoint

Social epidemiology? No way

Gerhard A Zielhuis and Lambertus ALM Kiemeney

Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University Medical Centre Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Gerhard A Zielhuis, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics/252, University Medical Centre Nijmegen, PO Box 9101, NL-6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands. E-mail: G.Zielhuis@mie.kun.nl

Although research into social and behavioural determinants of health and illness was conducted throughout the 20th century, it has become more common since the 1980s. Because of this, the term ‘social epidemiology’ is increasingly encountered in the biomedical literature.

Recent commentaries by Kaufman and Cooper1,2 and Muntaner3 on causal explanations in social epidemiology, although of interest to the research field, take the term ‘social epidemiology’ for granted. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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