Kathleen Cagney, Sociologist: "It Is Emphasized in Diet, but Social Circumstances Prevail in Longevity"

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American sociologist Kathleen Cagney has been studying how the most immediate social environment, especially neighbourhoods, influences life expectancy and health. From the Institute for Social Research (ISR) of the University of Michigan, which she now runs, not only uses the survey as a key tool of work, but continues to innovate. Precisely the ISR, where consumer surveys were born, has now introduced the mobile phone to try to reveal social d…