Epidemiology & Public Health

Track 4: Epidemiology and Sociology

Social epidemiology is a branch of epidemiology that focuses on the impact of social-structural factors on health outcomes. The distribution of advantages and disadvantages in a society mirrors the distribution of health and sickness, according to social epidemiology. It aims to uncover and comprehend the sociocultural factors that influence the pattern of disease and health distribution in a society. What effect do social factors have on individual and population health? This is the central and first issue of social epidemiology to be answered. The new attention on this issue using modern epidemiological methodologies, on the other hand, is a relatively new occurrence.