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American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on March 20, 2008
American Journal of Epidemiology 2008 167(12):1518-1519; doi:10.1093/aje/kwn059
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American Journal of Epidemiology © The Author 2008. Published by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

BOOK REVIEW

Macrosocial Determinants of Population Health

Edited by Sandro Galea

J. Michael Oakes

Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55454-1015

(e-mail: oakes007@umn.edu)

ISBN 978-0-38-7708-119, Springer Publishing Company, New York, New York (Telephone 877-687-7476, Fax 212-941-7842, Website: www.springerpub.com, E-mail: contactus@springerpub.com), 2007, 502 pp., $69.95 (Hardcover)

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The explanandum (or "outcome variable") of epidemiology remains population health, but in just the last few years the permissible set of explanans (or "causal factors") has grown not only in number but in kind. Today, genetic epidemiologists routinely focus on single nucleotide polymorphisms, while social epidemiologists are increasingly comfortable discussing macrosocial or upstream factors. Some may worry that this expansion undermines disciplinary cohesion by forcing subdisciplines to compete for scarce resources and/or by presenting consumers with a mix of explanations for the very same phenomena. Others may embrace the expansion as . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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