%0 Journal Article %T Commentary: Psychosocial factors and public health. %+ Department of Epidemiology and Public Health %A Singh-Manoux, Archana %< avec comité de lecture %@ 0143-005X %J Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health %I BMJ Publishing Group %V 57 %N 8 %P 553-6; discussion 554-5 %8 2003-07-31 %D 2003 %R 10.1136/jech.57.8.553 %M 12883050 %Z Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologieJournal articles %X Macleod and Davey Smith state that the aim of their paper is to critically examine the role of psychosocial factors in health. Unfortunately , what could have been an interesting discussion is compromised by the authors implicit assumption that there is a single pathway linking social position to health. The authors seem to equate parsimonious causal analysis with a narrow , reductionistic perspective, subsequently devoting most of their paper to a discussion of " psychosocial versus material explanation " , while ignoring evidence showing multiple pathways linking social position to health. This commentary widens the debate by considering three issues... %G English %2 https://inserm.hal.science/inserm-01154118/document %2 https://inserm.hal.science/inserm-01154118/file/Singh-Manoux%20commentary-JECH.pdf %L inserm-01154118 %U https://inserm.hal.science/inserm-01154118 %~ INSERM %~ SANTE_PUB_INSERM