Link, Bruce G.

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Name (Latin)
Link, Bruce G.
Date of birth
1949-09-03
Field of activity
Psychology
Occupation
College teachers
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
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Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q44589956
Library of congress: n 2017043097
Sources of Information
  • The Oxford handbook of stigma, discrimination and health, 2018:title page (Bruce G. Link) page ix (He is currently distinguished professor of public policy and sociology at the University of California, Riverside. He has written on the connection between socioeconomic status and health, homelessness, violence, stigma, and discrimiation. With Jo Phelan, he has advanced the theory of social conditions as fundamental causes of disease)

Wikipedia description:

Bruce George Link (born September 3, 1949) is an American epidemiologist and sociologist who is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the University of California, Riverside. He is also a professor emeritus of Epidemiology and Sociomedical Sciences in the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, a research scientist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, and the current president of the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS). Bruce Link is probably best known for developing fundamental cause theory of social inequalities in health together with Jo Phelan.

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