Macrosocial Determinants of Population Health

This book explores social factors such as culture, mass media, political systems, and migration that influence public health while systematically considering how we may best study these factors and use our knowledge from this study to guide public health interventions. Throughout, contributors emphasize the potential of population strategies to influence traditional risk factors associated with health and disease. Each section ends with Galea's integrative chapters, bringing the observations and conclusions from the chapters into clear, usable focus. The book is a work of major theoretical, empirical, and practical interest for disciplines as varied as public health, epidemiology, health promotion, sociology, and health policy. Its systematic field-building approach makes it as valuable to the public health provider as to the scholars and students studying the health of populations.

Structural interventions is a hot topic within the study in public health Will also be of great interest to the ongoing discussion of globalization Sandro Galea is very prominent in this area

Autorentext

Sandro Galea is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan. He was formerly an Associate Director at the Center for Epidemiologic Studies at the New York Academy of Medicine. Dr. Galea co-edited the Handbook of Urban Health for Springer, and he is on the editorial board of the Journal of Urban Health.

Zusammenfassung
A study to guide public health interventions. It explores social factors such as culture, mass media, political systems, and migration that influence public health. It emphasizes the potential of population strategies to influence traditional risk factors associated with health and disease.

Inhalt
The Role of Macrosocial Determinants in Shaping the Health of Populations.- Determinants.- Macrosocial Determinants of Population Health in the Context of Globalization.- Urbanicity, Urbanization, and the Urban Environment.- Corporate Practices.- Political Economic Systems and the Health of Populations: Historical Thought and Current Directions.- Climate Change.- Global Governance.- Macroeconomics.- Culture.- Taxation and Population Health: Sin Taxes or Structured Approaches.- Patent Law and Policy.- Migration.- Mass Media.- Integrative Chapter: Macrosocial Determinants of Population Health.- Methods.- Identifying Causal Ecologic Effects on Health: A Methodological Assessment.- Ecological Studies.- Making Causal Inferences About Macrosocial Factors as a Basis for Public Health Policies.- Estimating the Health Effects of Macrosocial Shocks: A Collaborative Approach.- What Level Macro? Choosing Appropriate Levels to Assess How Place Influences Population Health.- Integrative Chapter: Methodologic Considerations in the Study of the Macrosocial Determination of Population Health.- Improving population health.- Acting Upon the Macrosocial Environment to Improve Health: A Framework for Intervention.- Case Studies: Improving the Macrosocial Environment.- Integrative Chapter: Modifying Macrosocial Factors to Improve Population Health.