Social, Economic, and Environmental Determinants of Chronic Diseases
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Behavior, Chronic Disease and Health Promotion".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2019) | Viewed by 45523
Special Issue Editor
Interests: social epidemiology; social determinants of health including chronic diseases; causal inference; microsimulation; social policies and health
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) is publishing a Special Issue next year on the social, economic, and environmental determinants of chronic (noncommunicable) diseases and their risk factors. IJERPH is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes theoretical and empirical work encompassing interdisciplinary topics in the fields of environmental health sciences and public health. For more information about the journal, please visit https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph.
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) kill approximately 41 million people each year, or the equivalent of 71% of all deaths globally. Most NCD deaths are due to cardiovascular diseases (17.9 million people annually), followed by cancers (9.0 million), respiratory diseases (3.9 million), and diabetes (1.6 million) (WHO, 2018). Unhealthy diets, smoking, physical inactivity, and obesity are some of the primary established risk factors for developing and dying from chronic diseases.
There is growing evidence that social determinants of health shape the risks of NCDs and their risk factors in both developed and developing countries. As described by the WHO, social determinants include upstream social, economic, and environmental factors and conditions such as socioeconomic status, neighborhood socioeconomic environments, job strain, income inequality, gender and racial/ethnic inequalities, social capital/cohesion, and social and economic policies that characterize where we live, learn, work, and play. These fundamental conditions contribute substantially to overall population health and health inequities. Notably, many of these social determinants of health reside outside of the health care sector and hence require multi-sectoral approaches to address them.
We welcome any original theoretical or empirical work that could lend key insights into the impacts of social determinants on incidence and mortality from major chronic diseases (including but not limited to the diseases mentioned above) and their risk factors. Regarding social determinants, we are especially interested in upstream social, economic, and environmental factors that could help to inform policymakers and public health practitioners in their ongoing efforts to reduce the burden of chronic diseases locally, nationally, and globally.
Assoc. Prof. Daniel Kim
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Social determinants of health
- Chronic diseases
- Chronic disease risk factors
- Noncommunicable diseases
- Contextual factors
- Neighborhoods
- Social policies
- Health disparities
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