From public health luminary Nancy Krieger comes a revolutionary way of addressing health
justice and the embodied truths of lived experience. Since the 1700s, fierce debates in …

The field of public health has increasingly promoted a social ecological approach to health,
shifting from an individual, biomedical paradigm to a recognition of social and structural …

Worldwide challenges to health reflect a “paradox of success,” whereby both the strengths
and the weaknesses of current approaches in public health, epidemiology, and biomedicine …

In public health research and reporting, there is an increasing interest in eco-social theory
and intersectional approaches to understand health inequity. Both approaches focus on the …

Context: The idea of “population” is core to the population sciences but is rarely defined
except in statistical terms. Yet who and what defines and makes a population has everything …

In 1946, the newly formed World Health Organization boldly sought to conceptualize “health”
as wellbeing in the positive sense,“not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” Yet nearly …

Amid ongoing shifts world economic and political systems, the promise for future public
health is more tenuous than ever. Will the today's economic systems sustain tomorrow's …

Both public health experts and medical anthropologists are concerned with how health is
shaped by environmental forces. This creates an important cross‐disciplinary alliance, yet …

Abstract Tony McMichael's 1999 essay,'Prisoners of the Proximate: Loosening the
Constraints on Epidemiology in an Age of Change', published by the American Journal of …

An indispensable read for all those seeking to address the severe problems of local and
global human health and environmental crises The widespread growth of monopolies and …