Source: BMJ Global Health

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Capitalogenic disease: social determinants in focus

  2023-12-01 in BMJ Global Health

Scholarship on the social determinants of health and disease has become firmly established over the past several decades. This school of thought has created space for academics and health professionals to consider the structural factors that may produce ill health, generate health inequalities and prevent access to healthcare or other goods and services necessary for human welfare.1 Research on social determinants has been developed through attention to ‘structural violence’,2 ‘commercial determinants’3 and the ‘causes of the causes’ of disease.4 These are useful analytical developments. But ...

  Tagged under: Economics | Capitalism

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