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International Journal of Epidemiology, doi:10.1093/ije/dyl296
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2007; all rights reserved.

Editorial

Sex, race and social role—history and the social determinants of health

Stephen J Kunitz

Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester Medical School, Rochester, NY, USA.

E-mail: Stephen_Kunitz@urmc.rochester.edu

Keywords Sex, race, ethnicity, social class

Accepted 4 December 2006

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Introduction

Just as sex, drugs and rock and roll were fetishized in the 1960s, so do we now do the same with sex, race and social roles and their impact upon the health of individuals and populations. The result is that we often tend to reify these concepts and use them without exploring their content or their meaning in different contexts. The point I would like to make is that these three important attributes of individuals do not bear a constant relationship to health and disease. Their significance is shaped by the context: historical, socio-economic, cultural and epidemiologic among others. This means that there are no laws that are broadly true and that can be the basis of predictions of future associations between sex, race, and social roles on the one hand and health and disease on the other. This is, I think, the most important lesson history has to teach . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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