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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.

Macrosocial Determinants of Population Health

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.