International Encyclopedia of Public Health

William Cockerham is Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Previously, he was Director of the UAB Center for Social Medicine. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley and has done post-graduate work at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. His research interests include health-related lifestyle patterns in diverse populations. His journal articles include a widely-used theoretical model of health lifestyle behavior and among his several books is The Social Causes of Health and Disease (Polity, 2007) that is being released in a second edition in 2013. He has conducted health lifestyle research in the U.S., and also in Western and Eastern Europe, and the former states of the Soviet Union funded through various agencies, including the European Union’s Copernicus Project. He is the immediate past president of the Research Committee on Health Sociology of the International Sociological Association.

1. History of Epidemiology & Public Health
2. Methods and Measurement in Epidemiology and Public Health
3. Demography, Epidemiology and Public Health
4. Epidemiology of diseases
5. Sexual and Reproductive Health
6. Public Health of Population Subgroups
7. Behavioral factors in Public Health
8. Environmental and occupational Epidemiology
9. Health services
10. Health systems
11. Epidemiology and public policy
12. Ethical and professional issues in Epidemiology & Public Health and health inequalities
13. Public Health, Biotechnology, and Information & Communication Technology