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International Journal of Epidemiology 2002;31:698
© International Epidemiological Association 2002

Book Review

Social Support Measurement and Intervention: A Guide for Health and Social Scientists.

Sheldon Cohen, Lynn Underwood, Benjamin Gottlieb (eds). New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 334 US$45.00. ISBN 0-19-512670-X.

Stephen Stansfeld

This is a useful book orientated towards the selection and development of measures of social relations suitable for assessment and intervention in studies of physical and psychiatric illness. The editors use the same format as in their earlier volume Measuring Stress: A Guide for Health and Social Scientists sponsored by the Fetzer Institute with the laudable aim of improving the dissemination of methods for measuring psychosocial concepts, in this case social support.

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