[as you may have surmised I am in the middle of carrying out a lit review
on barriers to having the SDOH emphasized]

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
   Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Health Sciences, part of the Taylor &
Francis Group
   Issue:   Volume 27, Number 3 / July 30, 1999
   Pages:   161 - 165

Teaching social inequalities in health: barriers and opportunities: leading
article

Carles Muntaner

Abstract:

This article examines some of the main threats and new opportunities
encountered by teachers of social inequalities in health in contemporary
academia. Focusing mostly on the recent US and European experiences, I
suggest that lay world views legitimating social inequalities are often in
conflict with explanations arising from social epidemiology and medical
sociology. The dominance of medicine in public health, through its often
implicit assumptions about the biological determinants of human behaviour,
is also identified as a barrier to teaching social inequalities in health.
Educational elitism, which restricts higher education to members of the
upper middle class, is identified as another barrier to teaching social
inequalities in health. On the other hand, teachers in this field can
benefit from a recent growth of empirical studies during the last decade
aimed at understanding the social determinants of health inequalities.
Finally, I suggest that familiarity with current critical scholarship
within public
 health, as well as the use of techniques developed by sociologists to
teach social stratification, can be valuable resources for teaching social
inequalities in health.

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