FYI, this is the link to an article in response to the Putnam Galea piece posted below by
Dennis (same issue of the JPHP)
Muntaner C, Chung H.
Commentary: Macrosocial Determinants, Epidemiology, and Health Policy: should
politics and economics be banned from social determinants of health research?
J Public Health Policy. 2008 Sep;29(3):299-306.
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jphp/journal/v29/n3/abs/jphp200823a.html
Carles Muntaner
Psychiatric and Addictions Nursing research Chair
Social Equity and Health
CAMH
and
Professor
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[EQ] Epidemiology and the Macrosocial Determinants of Health
Epidemiology and the Macrosocial Determinants of Health
Sara Putnam1 and Sandro Galea1,2,3
1Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, New York Academy of Medicine, New
York, NY, USA
2Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, Department of
Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor,
MI, USA
3Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public
Health, New York, NY, USA
Journal of Public Health Policy (2008) 29, 275?289.
doi:10.1057/jphp.2008.15
Abstract:
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jphp/journal/v29/n3/abs/jphp200815a.html
??.In the past two decades, public health researchers have taken renewed
interest in investigating the role of social factors in health. This holds
substantial promise in terms of identifying manipulable social factors
that are amenable to policy intervention. Most existing empirical and
conceptual epidemiologic work, however, has focused on the more proximal
social determinants, such as interpersonal relations.
These factors, although perhaps easier to study epidemiologically, are
much less relevant to policy makers than more "macrosocial" factors such
as taxation policies. Limited epidemiologic attention to macrosocial
determinants of health is ironic given that macrosocial factors such as
the rapid industrialization and urbanization in the 19th century
contributed to the organization of public health practice and,
tangentially, to academic public health research.
We suggest here that greater investment in the study of macrosocial
determinants has the potential to make a significant and unique
contribution to the greater public health agenda and should be a prominent
aspect of social epidemiologic inquiry in the coming decades?..?
Commentary: Population-level Risk Factors, Population Health, and Health
Policy
This commentary urges attention to population-level factors that affect
health, adding a practical element to the article on macrosocial
determinants of health.
Elena N Naumova and Steven A Cohen
J Public Health Pol 29: 290-298; doi:10.1057/jphp.2008.21 - Abstract
Commentary: Macrosocial Determinants, Epidemiology, and Health Policy:
should politics and economics be banned from social determinants of health
research?
After considering the reasons that epidemiologists have restricted their
studies, these authors find reason for optimism in the new interest in
macrosocial factors.
Carles Muntaner and Haejoo Chung
J Public Health Pol 29: 299-306; doi:10.1057/jphp.2008.23 - Abstract
Population Health and the Hardcore Smoker: Geoffrey Rose Revisited
Challenging the "hardening hypothesis," these Canadian authors note that
Geoffrey Rose's model predicts that the effect of policy interventions,
and changes in social norms, will shift the population-level risk
distribution for continuing to smoke, making it more likely that all
smokers will quit.
Michael O Chaiton, Joanna E Cohen and John Frank
J Public Health Pol 29: 307-318; doi:10.1057/jphp.2008.14 - Abstract
Clustering Countries to Evaluate Health Outcomes Globally
Country clusters can and should be used to study societal conditions that
contribute to changes in health outcomes over time.
Sue Thomas Hegyvary, Devon M Berry and Alejandro Murua
J Public Health Pol 29: 319-339; doi:10.1057/jphp.2008.13 - Abstract
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