RESEARCH
SES as as Fundamental Cause of Illness
A burgeoning literature on health disparities continues to address the importance of SES for understanding persistent health gradients. The first of these papers is based on my study of physician assessments of patient adherence, following by an invited chapter focusing on future directions for the fundamental cause concept, including policy implications.
Related papers:
Freese, Jeremy and Karen E. Lutfey. Forthcoming. “Fundamental Causality: Challenges of a Animating Concept for Medical Sociology.” Chapter in Handbook of Medical Sociology, edited by Bernice Pescosolido, Jack Martin, Jane McLeod, and Anne Rogers. Springer Press.
Lutfey, Karen and Jeremy Freese. 2005. “Toward Some Fundamentals of Fundamental Causality: Socioeconomic Status and Health in the Routine Clinic Visit for Diabetes.” American Journal of Sociology 110(5): 1326-72.
KAREN LUTFEY
Director, Center on Patient-Provider Relationships
Senior Research Scientist
New England Research Institutes
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