Giving Everyone the Health of the Educated: An Examination of Whether Social Change Would Save More Lives Than Medical Advances | Zendy

Steven H. Woolf | Zendy; Robert E. Johnson | Zendy; Robert L. Phillips | Zendy; Maike Philipsen | Zendy

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Giving Everyone the Health of the Educated: An Examination of Whether Social Change Would Save More Lives Than Medical Advances

Author(s) -

Steven H. Woolf,

Robert E. Johnson,

Robert L. Phillips,

Maike Philipsen

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2005.084848

Subject(s) - public health , medicine , confounding , demography , mortality rate , social change , social determinants of health , gerontology , environmental health , economic growth , economics , sociology , nursing , pathology

Social determinants of health, such as inadequate education, contribute greatly to mortality rates. We examined whether correcting the social conditions that account for excess deaths among individuals with inadequate education might save more lives than medical advances (e.g., new drugs and devices).

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