Although interest in social epidemiology has grown exponentially over the past three decades, there is a glaring need for an edited handbook that provides a contemporary, comprehensive, and state-of-the-art interdisciplinary survey of established and emerging areas of study to better support the training and research activity of scholars and students.

The De Gruyter Handbook of Social Epidemiology is an indispensable reference work that brings together the contributions of leading social epidemiologists from around the world. Our interdisciplinary approach represents a range of approaches to social epidemiology, including anthropology, demography, gerontology, medicine, psychology, public health, social work, and sociology. By highlighting established and emerging areas within the field of social epidemiology, this volume offers an invaluable resource for scholars and students who are interested in the ways in which population health intersects with aging, socioeconomic determinants, race and ethnicity, migration, sex and gender, sexual orientation, social relationships, religion, neighborhood context, environmental ecology, area income inequality, and political determinants.

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Terrence D. Hill is a Professor of Sociology at The University of Texas at San Antonio. His research examines social inequalities in health and human suffering. He is especially interested in how social factors contribute to health disparities. To date, he has published over 180 peer-reviewed manuscripts in outlets like Journal of Health and Social Behavior , Social Science & Medicine , The Journals of Gerontology , The Gerontologist , American Journal of Public Health , Labour Economics , and Social Work . According to Google Scholar , his work has been cited over 10,000 times.

Tarani Chandola is a Chair Professor of Medical Sociology at the University of Hong Kong where he is the head of the department of Sociology and the director of the Methods Hub in the Faculty of Social Sciences. He is a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. His research is primarily on the social determinants of health, focusing on health inequalities and psychosocial factors, and the analysis of longitudinal cohort studies.

Ginny Garcia-Alexander is a demographer and data analyst at FLO Analytics (Portland, OR) with nearly twenty years of experience as an educator and researcher in higher education. Her work as a social demographer centers on investigations of factors affecting population health. In her career, she has used a variety of quantitative methods and demographic techniques to analyze large-scale datasets like the American Community Survey and Decennial Census .