Health and Health Inequality
Faculty working in this area use sociological approaches to understand health as a manifestation of broader structures of social inequality. 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, intimate partner violence, and Aboriginal well-being.
Research Stories
Current Projects
- Anomaly in the gradient: Health of U.S. adults with subbaccalaureate education
Anna Zajacovatopicshealth, education
- Health and Socioeconomic Status over the Life Course: A Comparative Analysis of Canada and the United States
Andrea Willsontopicssocioeconomic status, health, life course, aging, Canada-US comparison
- Adult Socioeconomic Status, Childhood Adversity, and the Intergenerational Transmission of Health Risk
Kim Shuey, Andrea Willsontopicssocioeconomic status, life course inequalities, intergenerational transmission of inequality
- Canadian Infants' Motor Abilities: A Validation of the Alberta Infant Motor Scale Normative Data
Johanna M. Darrah, Doreen J. Bartlett, William R. Avisontopicsinfant health, ethnicity, motor development, statistical methods
- Identifying Causal Effects of the Built Environment on Physical Activity, Diet and Obesity among Children
Jason Gilliland, William R. Avisontopicschild health, obesity, physical environment
- Investigating Health Trajectories over the Life Course and Across Generations: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Transmission of Health and Socioeconomic Inequality from Parents to Their Adult Children
Andrea Willson, Kim Shueytopicshealth, inequality, poverty, longitudinal analysis
Completed Projects
- Family, Community and Health in the Context of Economic Change
Roderic Beaujottopicspopulation, health impact of socio-economic changes, families, communities, health behaviors and practices
Faculty Experts in Health and Health Inequality
Teresa Abada, Associate Professor
- Social, cultural, human capital;
- Migration;
- Immigrant health;
- Immigrant integration;
- Economic and social integration of children of immigrants
SSC 5429
519-661-2111 x83690
tabada@uwo.ca
Faculty Profile
Anders Holm, Professor
- Quantitative methods;
- Socioeconomic status over the lifecourse;
- Social stratification;
- Inter-generational mobility;
- Sociology of health
SSC 5327
519-661-2111 x 85515
aholm@uwo.ca
Faculty Profile
Kim Shuey, Associate Professor
Acting Graduate Chair, Department of Sociology
- Health and disability across the life course;
- Transmission of health across generations;
- Precarious employment, work and health;
- Environmental sociology.
SSC 5426
519-661-2111 x85135
kshuey@uwo.ca
Faculty Profile
Andrea Willson, Associate Professor
- Social inequality over the life course;
- Aging and the life course;
- Health effects of socioeconomic status across generations;
- Quantitative research
SSC 5423
519-661-2111 x85132
willson@uwo.ca
Faculty Profile
Yoko Yoshida, Associate Professor
- Immigration and integration;
- Social statistics;
- Race and ethnicity;
- Social inequality;
- Inequality in health
SSC 5409
519-661-2111 x85045
yoko.yoshida@uwo.ca
Faculty Profile
Anna Zajacova, Associate Professor
- Social epidemiology;
- Health inequalities;
- Demography;
- Lifecourse and aging;
- Ethnicity;
- Quantitative methods
