AFRO-NETS> Manuscripts for HSR Special Issue on Social Determinants of Health

[Dieter Neuvians MD <neuvians@mweb.co.zw>]

Manuscripts for HSR Special Issue on Social Determinants of Health
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With the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Health Ser-
vices Research (HSR) is planning a special issue focusing on the so-
cial determinants of health, to provide a forum for presenting the 
latest research and policy analysis to a broad audience of research-
ers, practitioners, and policymakers. There is ample evidence that 
most health policymakers, both at state and federal levels, do not 
understand how policy relating to non-medical determinants of health 
can be incorporated into health policy. Conversely, policymakers in 
such fields as education, transportation, or housing rarely see that 
there are major health implications to the choices that they make. 
Education is needed in both directions. 

Topics of interest include but are not limited to social inequalities 
in health by socioeconomic position, race/ethnicity, gender, etc.; 
the role of a broad range of psychosocial factors in health at the 
level of individuals, neighborhoods, and communities, and broader so-
ciopolitical units; the interconnections and interactions between and 
among social and biological-chemical-physical determinants of health; 
and implications of social determinants of health for health care or 
health services research, practice, and policy. 

Jim House, Nicole Lurie, and Catherine McLaughlin will serve as co-
editors of the special HSR issue. September 1, 2002 is the deadline 
for submission. The planned publication date is July 2003.

For more information got to the following Website: 
http://www.academyhealth.org/publications/hsr.htm

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