Health, Well-Being and Society
Health, Well-Being and Society
The Health, Well-Being and Society Pathway is offered at Durham, Newcastle, Northumbria, Queen's and Ulster.
The Health, Wellbeing and Society Training Pathway has an interdisciplinary focus on the social determinants of health and well-being in our society today and is uniquely placed to train the next generation of future world leading researchers in social science relating to health. This pathway aspires to enhance through training and support the ESRC’s delivery goals of ‘influencing behaviour and informing interventions’ and ‘creating a vibrant and fair society’.
This pathway brings together internationally recognised social scientists engaging in medical and health research. It enhances our capacity for interdisciplinary research across a wide range of health-related social science area, including:
- Health economics
- Health education
- Health policy
- Health psychology
- Medical anthropology
- Medical geography
- Medical sociology
Within this cross-disciplinary, cross institutional pathway there is expertise in a wide range of areas of research. These include:
- Behavioural and social science perspectives on ageing
- Child health
- Early intervention and prevention
- Chronic illness
- Disability and human development
- Environmental health
- Ethics
- Genetic and reproductive technologies
- Health inequalities
- Health care systems (including primary care, community pharmacy, nursing and allied health care professionals)
- Health policy and politics
- Public health
- Social epidemiology
- Social gerontology
Please contact the institutional leads listed below to find out more about their institution’s expertise in these and other health-related research areas.
