The Health Significance of Families Seen through the Recent Measles Outbreak
Received Date: Jul 23, 2015 / Accepted Date: Aug 25, 2015 / Published Date: Aug 31, 2015
Abstract
The recent rise of measles demonstrates the importance of our families’ social characteristics for a host of infectious and non-infectious diseases. We need to recognize that families are more than their shared genes; families are distinctive health environments and our family relationships affect our health and health behaviors. Although families are a relatively understudied health context, I recommend several avenues by which we can grow this exciting field within social epidemiology. With a greater understanding of how families’ social characteristics influence health, we can inform clinical and public health practices and better meet our public health goals.
Keywords: Families; Measles; Social epidemiology; Vaccination
Citation: Molly A. Martin (2015) The Health Significance of Families Seen through the Recent Measles Outbreak. Epidemiology (sunnyvale) 5:197. Doi: 10.4172/2161-1165.1000197
Copyright: © 2015 Martin MA. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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