Am J Epidemiol 2004; 159:102-103.
Copyright © 2004 by the Johns
Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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Neighborhoods and Health
Department of Preventive Medicine in Epidemiology, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL 60153
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Edited by Ichiro Kawachi and Lisa F. Berkman
ISBN 0195138384, Oxford University Press, New York, New York (Telephone: 800-445-9714, Fax: 919-677-1303, E-mail: orders@oup-usa.org, Web site: http://www.oup.com/us), 2003, 368 pp., $58.95 (hardcover)
The methodological insights and specific research findings displayed in the book Neighborhoods and Health (1) signal an important advance in epidemiology. In the area of chronic disease, at least, modern epidemiology has been in the suffocating embrace of individual-level approaches for several decades. While much has been accomplished using individual