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- Title
Social relationships and health: a flashpoint for health policy.
- Authors
Umberson, Debra; Montez, Jennifer Karas
- Abstract
Social relationships--both quantity and quality--affect mental health, health behavior, physical health, and mortality risk. Sociologists have played a central role in establishing the link between social relationships and health outcomes, identifying explanations for this link, and discovering social variation (e.g., by gender and race) at the population level. Studies show that social relationships have short- and long-term effects on health, for better and for worse, and that these effects emerge in childhood and cascade throughout life to foster cumulative advantage or disadvantage in health. This article describes key research themes in the study of social relationships and health, and it highlights policy implications suggested by this research.
- Publication
Journal of health and social behavior, 2010, Vol 51 Suppl, pS54
- ISSN
0022-1465
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1177/0022146510383501