Macrosocial Determinants of Population Health

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.

• 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.

"... this ambitious new volume edited by Professor Sandro Galea certainly aims to expand the set by discussing macrosocial determinants of health and the benefits, if not necessity, of their inclusion in epidemiologic analyses. ... There is much to recommend in this text. ... Galea's new text certainly represents such an advance and portends a substantial step in a useful direction." - J. Michael Oakes, American Journal of Epidemiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN