社会隔离:一个不平等分布的健康危险
Debra Umberson1, Rachel Donnelly2
1Department of Sociology, Center on Aging & Population Sciences, and Population Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA.
Annual review of sociology
|December 18, 2023
概括
社会隔离严重影响健康和死亡率. 本研究探讨了促进孤立的社会条件,并提出了解决不平等问题和减少弱势群体风险的框架.
科学领域:
- 社会流行病学社会流行病学
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 老年学是一门学科.
背景情况:
- 社会隔离是不良健康结果的重要风险因素,包括死亡率和痴呆症.
- 现有的研究主要集中在隔离对健康的后果上,不太强调其潜在的社会决定因素.
- 社会隔离存在不平等现象,但缺乏对促进社会隔离的生命周期社会条件的系统评估.
研究的目的:
- 审查整个生命过程中社会隔离不平等的证据.
- 开发一个概念框架,以了解社会隔离的结构驱动因素.
- 引导未来对根源原因和政策干预措施的研究,以减少弱势群体的孤立.
主要方法:
- 对社会隔离和健康不平等研究的系统文献综述.
- 开发一个综合社会,经济和环境因素的概念框架.
- 对社会隔离的人生轨迹现有证据的分析.
主要成果:
- 有证据表明,基于各种社会决定因素,社会隔离存在重大不平等.
- 拟议的框架强调了导致社会孤立的结构性系统.
- 确定与孤立风险增加相关的关键生命周期和社会条件.
结论:
- 解决社会孤立需要了解其结构根源和生命过程动态.
- 未来的研究应该专注于识别和减轻社会隔离中的不平等现象.
- 针对弱势群体的政策干预可以减少社会隔离对健康的不利影响.
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