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  2. Ecosocial theory - Wikipedia

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    Social factors in epidemiology were largely ignored until Doyal, Navarro, and others proposed the theories of SPD and Political Economy of Health in the 1970s, [4] and Krieger later integrated these theories into her writings on Ecosocial Theory (1994, 2011). As described by Doyal, SPD consists of the following key constructs: (1) The ...

  3. Social choice theory - Wikipedia

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    Social choice theory is a branch of welfare economics that extends the theory of rational choice to collective decision-making. [1] Social choice studies the behavior of different mathematical procedures ( social welfare functions ) used to combine individual preferences into a coherent whole.

  4. Population health - Wikipedia

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    Health can be considered a capital good; health capital is part of human capital as defined by the Grossman model. [30] Health can be considered both an investment good and consumption good. [31] Factors such as obesity and smoking have negative effects on health capital, while education, wage rate, and age may also impact health capital. [31]

  5. Social determinants of health - Wikipedia

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    Strong social connections and support systems are vital for maintaining good health. Friends, family, and community networks provide emotional support, practical assistance, and a sense of belonging, which buffer against stress and contribute to mental and physical well-being.

  6. Social welfare function - Wikipedia

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    Arrow's impossibility theorem is a key result on social welfare functions, showing an important difference between social and consumer choice: whereas it is possible to construct a rational (non-self-contradictory) decision procedure for consumers based only on ordinal preferences, it is impossible to do the same in the social choice setting ...

  7. Health equity - Wikipedia

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    The quality of health and how health is distributed among economic and social status in a society can provide insight into the level of development within that society. [5] Health is a basic human right and human need, and all human rights are interconnected. Thus, health must be discussed along with all other basic human rights. [6]

  8. Social preferences - Wikipedia

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    Social preferences describe the human tendency to not only care about one's own material payoff, but also the reference group's payoff or/and the intention that leads to the payoff. [1] Social preferences are studied extensively in behavioral and experimental economics and social psychology.

  9. Economic Theory - Wikipedia

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    Economic Theory is a peer-reviewed academic journal that focuses on theoretical economics, particularly social choice, general equilibrium theory, and game theory. Mathematically rigorous articles are also published in the fields of experimental economics , public economics , international economics , development economics , and industrial ...