PMID: 8961424Dec 1, 1996Paper

An economic and sociological interpretation of social differences in health-related behaviour: an encounter as a guide to social epidemiology

Social Science & Medicine
E LindbladhB Lindgren

Abstract

We argue that the group-centred analyses of social epidemiology should follow from theoretical considerations that take the situation of the individual as their natural starting point. In a tentative dialogue between economics and sociology, we develop a framework for the analysis of health-related behaviour. Such behaviour is modelled as a process of decision-making at the individual level. Within economics, we draw specifically on the demand-for-health literature and the new institutional economics. Within sociology, Bourdieu's habitus theory is presented in combination with a macro-structural approach where the focus is on the process of individualization. The relationship between these different approaches to health-related behaviour and their implications is discussed. We find that the encounter between different sciences provides valuable insights for future work in the socio-epidemiological tradition.

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Jul 30, 2002·Social Science & Medicine·Eva Lindbladh, Carl Hampus Lyttkens
May 14, 1998·Social Science & Medicine·N RiceM Sutton
May 14, 1998·Social Science & Medicine·E LindbladhP O Ostergren
Jan 6, 2000·Social Science & Medicine·P VirtanenJ Pentti
May 23, 2015·Health Sociology Review : the Journal of the Health Section of the Australian Sociological Association·Pandora Pound, Rona Campbell
Dec 19, 2013·Revista de saúde pública·Rita Barradas BarataJosé Leopoldo Ferreira Antunes

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