Social Networks and Health Inequalities

- Social Networks and Health Inequalities: A New Perspective for Research. - Social Relations, Social Capital, and Social Networks: A Conceptual Classification. - Social Network Theories: An Overview. - Social Network Mechanisms. - Negative Ties and Inequalities in Health. - Network Analysis and Health Inequalities: A Methodological Introduction. - Social Networks, Family Social Capital, and Child Health. - Social Networks, Health, and Health Inequalities in Youth. - Social Networks and Health Inequalities in Young and Middle Adulthood. - Social Networks and Health Inequalities in Old Age. - Social Status, Social Relations, and Health. - Unemployment, Social Networks, and Health Inequalities. - Social Networks and the Health of Single Parents. - Gender and Health Inequalities: Social Networks in the Context of Health and Health Behavior. - Social Networks and Disability: Access to and Stabilization of Integration into the Primary Labor Market. - Migration as a Health Inequality Dimension? Natio-Ethno-Cultural Affiliation, Health, and Social Networks. - Desiderata: Social Networks and Health Inequalities: Which Questions Remain Open?.

Andreas Klärner (PD Dr.) is Senior Researcher at the Thünen Institute of Rural Studies in Brunswick, Germany and also teaches at the University of Rostock, Germany. His research interests are social and health inequalities, rural poverty, and mixed-methods social network research. He is currently speaker of the standing group 'Sociological Network Research' in the German Sociological Association.

Markus Gamper (PD Dr.) is Assistant Professor at Department of Education and Social Sciences, University of Cologne. His research interests are social network analysis, sociology of migration and religion, social inequality, and the sociology of youth. He is the inventor and developer of the VennMaker software for visual-communicative analysis of social relationships and social networks.

Sylvia Keim-Klärner (Dr.) is Senior Researcher at the Thünen Institute of Rural Studies in Brunswick, Germany. Her research interests are in the areas of family research, social inequality, social networks, qualitative and mixed methods. From 2014 to 2018 she was speaker of the standing group 'Sociological Network Research' in the German Sociological Association.

Irene Moor (Dr.) is Research Associate at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Medical Sociology. Her research interests are in the areas of health and health inequalities in childhood and adolescence, school-survey methods and (school) health promotion. She is the deputy PI of the Health Beaviour in School-aged Children Study (HBSC) in Germany.

Holger von der Lippe (Prof. Dr.) is Full Professor of Developmental and Family Psychology at the MSB Medical School Berlin. His research interests are in the area of family psychology, social network analysis, systemic psychotherapy and mixed methods approaches in psychological inquiry. He is speaker of the standing group 'Social Networks and Health' in the German Society for Network