"What have epidemiologist and demographers contri-buted to our understanding of the links between the social environment and health."
- E. Crimmins & T. Seeman

Authors broached the topic of how the differing disciplinary traditions of demography and epidemiology have led to different approaches to the modeling of social effects on health. They also emphasized the measures of social environment effects, as well as behavior variables and other demographic variables on health status.