Social Epidemiology: Strategies for Public Health Activism

Julie Cwikel

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December, 2006
Cloth, 632 pages, 91 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-10048-9
$55.00 / £38.00

"“A welcome addition to every practitioner and researcher’s library, especially physicians”" — Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine

"Julie Cwikel's book is timely and needed in an era when epidemiology is regarded as a discipline mainly driven by formulae devoid of values. Her book captures and emphasizes epidemiology's central historical role in defining root and proximate causes and in measuring effects in order to improve population health. This is a welcome and inspiring book." — Derek Yach, professor and head, Division of Global Health, Yale School of Public Health, and director of the Rockefeller Foundation's program on global health

"This book presents an excellent delineation of a health endeavor that is deservedly coming into greater prominence: social epidemiology. First-rate scholarship shows in Julie Cwikel's accounts of social epidemiology's origins in classical epidemiology; its methods in the field; and several major applications, as well as in the extensive references. Cwikel then goes beyond the concept that social epidemiology is concerned only with the social factors in health and disease by including strategies for public health activism." — Lester Breslow, Dean Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health

Related Subjects

• Health
• Research and Design

About the Author

Julie Cwikel is professor in the Spitzer Department of Social Work and founder and director of the Center for Women's Health Studies and Promotion at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel.Julie Cwikel, MSW, PhD is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Shiva, Israel, where she also founded and co-leads The Center for Women's Health Studies and Promotion. Cwikel is trained in both social work and public health and received her MSW and PhD from the University of Michigan.

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