Social epidemiology is one of my big threads i would like to have going, as it is something i want to get a better grip on.

A glossary for social epidemiology
http://www.jech.com/cgi/content/full/55/10/693
"Social epidemiology is distinguished by its insistence on explicitly investigating social determinants of population distributions of health, disease, and wellbeing, rather than treating such determinants as
mere background to biomedical phenomena. Tackling this task requires attention to theories, concepts, and methods conducive to illuminating intimate links between our bodies and the body politic"

Includes concepts of race, gender, class, sexuality as social determinants of health

Here is the blog i've been meaning to start as a way to synthesize my thinking about theory and health promotion, as well as theory and all sorts of other things in life. i've been saving up all sorts of links to 'good' studies in health promotion that incorporate feminist or Marxist theory, never quite sure what i would do with them all. i hope to begin documenting some of them here. As i begin to post, i hope to find better ways to organize my thoughts. It can be hard to start, but i must just start where i am...

Links on poverty:
Taking poverty to heart: Non-communicable diseases and the poor
http://www.id21.org/insights/insights-h01/insights-issh01-art00.html
"Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of death worldwide. Their emergence as the predominant health problem in wealthy countries accompanied economic development. As a result, NCDs are often referred to as 'diseases of affluence'. But is this a misleading term? It suggests that these are not major problems for the world's poor, which is quite simply wrong, as this issue of Insight Health illustrates. Is it time to rethink policy on NCDs?"

Poverty & Health
http://www2.cid.harvard.edu/cidcmh/wg1_paper5.pdf
"Evidence is accumulating on health inequalities ... their proximate causes ... and their underlying causes. Less is known about the effects of policies and programs."