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fundamental social causes of disease and mortality  

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  • The primacy of social conditions as determinants of health has been observed for centuries. In the 19th century, Virchow (1848) declared that “medicine is a social science.” Today, social epidemiologists articulate the centrality of “upstream causes” of disease and death. [Source: Encyclopedia of Health and Behavior; Fundamental Social Causes of Disease and Mortality]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-T46BQDK1-B

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