Illness is more than just biological – medical sociology shows how social factors get under the skin and cause disease

Medical sociology examines how social, cultural, political and economic factors shape health in ways that medicine alone ...
Salon

Inequality is literally killing us: The most unequal societies suffer most in public health metrics

Adapted from "Inequality Kills Us All: Covid-19’s Health Lessons for the World," by Stephen Bezruchka, M.D., M.P.H. In 1992, a publication appeared in the British Medical Journal written by Richard ...
Health Affairs

Systemic And Structural Racism: Definitions, Examples, Health Damages, And Approaches To Dismantling

Gilbert Gee and Annie Ro depict systemic racism as the hidden base of an iceberg 10 (see illustration in online appendix exhibit 1). 11 The iceberg’s visible part represents the overt racism that ...