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Cultural Capital and the Production of Health Abel, Thomas

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Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College's Population Health lecture series. Thomas Abel is a visiting Professor at UBC Vancouver. He joined our department in March and will continue his research here until October 31st, 2012. Thomas is a Medical Sociologist and Full Professor for Health Research at the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine of the University of Bern, Switzerland (http://www.ispm.ch ). In Bern he is chair of the division of Social and Behavioural Health Research (http://www.ispm.ch/index.php?id=796). Applying a structure-agency perspective his major research program addresses issues of social stratification and inequalities in health and health behaviours.

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