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Health and the Life Course

This area uses sociological approaches to understand health as a manifestation of broader structures of social inequality and student health and aging over the life course as a social process. Special attention if offered to the intersections of individual lives, social structures, and social change. Research includes examinations of cumulative advantage processes as mechanisms of health inequality, social mobility and trajectories of health, inequality in health behaviours and well-being, health professions, work and health, family ties and aging, trajectories of socioeconomic status and health from early life through old age, intimate partner violence, and Indigenous well-being.

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