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. 2011. “Fundamental Causality: Challenges of a Animating Concept for Medical Sociology.” Pp. 67-81 in B. Pescosolido, J. Martin, J. McLeod, and A. Rogers (Eds.), Handbook of Medical Sociology. New York: Springer.
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.
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. 2011. “Fundamental Causality: Challenges of a Animating Concept for Medical Sociology.” Pp. 67-81 in B. Pescosolido, J. Martin, J. McLeod, and A. Rogers (Eds.), Handbook of Medical Sociology. New York: Springer.
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
Senior Research Scientist
Director, Center on Patient-Provider Relationships
Director, Center for Qualitative Research
New England Research Institutes
9 Galen Street, Watertown, MA 02472
Tel: (617) 972-3313
Fax: (617) 926-8246
Email: klutfey@neriscience.com
Senior Research Scientist
Director, Center on Patient-Provider Relationships
Director, Center for Qualitative Research
New England Research Institutes
9 Galen Street, Watertown, MA 02472
Tel: (617) 972-3313
Fax: (617) 926-8246
Email: klutfey@neriscience.com