Four Horsemen - Feature Documentary - Official Version. Richard G. Wilkinson @wikipedia.org. Richard Gerald Wilkinson (born 1943) is a British social epidemiologist, author and advocate.
He is Professor Emeritus of Social Epidemiology at the University of Nottingham, having retired in 2008. He is also Honorary Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London[1] and Visiting Professor at University of York. He is best known for his book with Kate Pickett The Spirit Level, first published in 2009, which claims that societies with more equal distribution of incomes have better health, fewer social problems such as violence, drug abuse, teenage births, mental illness, obesity, and others, and are more cohesive than ones in which the gap between the rich and poor is greater.
Background[edit] Books by Richard G. Wilkinson @amazon.co.uk. Social epidemiology @wikipedia.org. Social epidemiology is defined as "The branch of epidemiology that studies the social distribution and social determinants of health,"[1] that is, "both specific features of, and pathways by which, societal conditions affect health.
"[2] Social epidemiology may focus on individual-level measures, or on emergent social properties that have no correlation at the individual level; simultaneous analysis at both levels may be warranted.[3] Use of such multilevel models (also known as hierarchical and mixed effects models) has grown in recent years, but as for all observational epidemiology, this approach suffers from theoretical and practical concerns.[4]