Objective The increased reliance on digital technologies to deliver healthcare as a result of
the COVID-19 pandemic has meant pre-existing disparities in digital access and utilisation …

This review article addresses the concept of the social determinants of health (SDH),
selected theories, and its application in studies of chronic disease. Once ignored or …

We previously proposed that socioeconomic status (SES) is a fundamental cause of health
inequalities and, as such, that SES inequalities in health persist over time despite radical …

Fundamental cause theory (FCT) was originally proposed to explain how socioeconomic
inequalities in health emerged and persisted over time. The concept was that higher …

This article draws upon a major social science theoretical approach–systemic racism theory–
to assess decades of empirical research on racial dimensions of US health care and public …

The persistence of socioeconomic inequalities in health, even in the highly developed
'welfare states' of Western Europe, is one of the great disappointments of public health …

This study tests a central theoretical assumption of stress process and job strain models,
namely that increases in employees' control and support at work should promote well-being …

Link and Phelan (1995) developed the theory of fundamental causes to explain why the
association between socioeconomic status (SES) and mortality has persisted despite radical …

Why a thoroughly updated and revised second edition of this book about theories of disease
distribution, in past and present societal and ecological context? Because the lived realities …

The inverse relationships between socioeconomic status (SES) and unhealthy behaviors
such as tobacco use, physical inactivity, and poor nutrition have been well demonstrated …