The social medical
specialty unit seeks to grasp the ways that during which social, political,
cultural, and economic circumstances influence our possibilities for a healthy
life. We tend to mix theory from the social sciences with rigorous epidemiologic strategies
so we are able to illuminate the connections between social factors and health
and use what we discover to enhance health among this broad frame we've a
interest within the connections between social inequalities and health
inequalities.
The unit has four aims.
First, we tend to aim to provide data regarding the influence of social
circumstances on health with a special stress on social inequalities in health.
Second, we tend to aim to coach and mentor a replacement generation of students
and practitioners World Health Organization have the capability to conduct
rigorous analysis on the role of social factors in health. Third, we tend to
aim to leverage what we tend to learn to enhance population health and scale
back health inequalities domestically, nationally, and across international
borders. Fourth we tend to look for to translate and disperse our work to
policy manufacturers, thought leaders, media, and also the public and reinforce
the message that social determinants of health at primary drivers of population
health.
Our diary and
associated social media sites are the first vehicles for our translation and
dissemination efforts. The diary hosts synopses of our current analysis and up
to date publications within the scientific literature, provides a calendar of
forthcoming events, hosts AN archive of public use Info-graphics on social
determinants of health, and streams Social Eysenck Personality Inventory Radio,
a series of curated Spotify music streams. Our students are concerned in
building the diary and in making the Info-graphics and music streams.
Anchored upstream from
the additional proximal determinants of un wellness, analysis within the social
medical specialty unit engages collaboratively with the opposite medical
specialty unit within the Department, so the total cascade of influences on
health from social conditions to biology will be understood. The social medical
specialty unit builds on its connections with the parliamentarian Wood Johnson
(RWJ) Health and Society students Program and also the Center for the Study of Social Inequalities and
Health. The RWJ program facilitates knowledge domain collaborations between
the biological and social sciences and has dramatically enlarged contacts
between researchers at the postman faculty of Public Health and people
elsewhere across multiple disciplines. Students enjoy shut ties to the Departments
of social science and science and also the faculty of welfare work. the middle
for Social Inequalities and Health provides a rigorous intellectual basis for
the study of health inequalities and support for junior school inquisitive
about this space, sponsors speakers, seminars, and events that highlight the
importance of social inequalities for on the assembly of health inequalities,
and keeps members current on vital problems through an active journal club.