Population Health Science

<p>POPULATION HEALTH SCIENCE formalizes an emerging discipline at the crossroads of social and medical sciences demography and economics--an emerging approach to population studies that represents a seismic shift in how traditional health sciences measure and observe health events.</p><p>Bringing together theories and methods from diverse fields this text provides grounding in the factors that shape population health. The overall approach is one of consequentialist science: designing creative studies that identify causal factors in health with multidisciplinary rigor.</p><p>Distilled into nine foundational principles this book guides readers through population science studies that strategically incorporate:</p><p>- macrosocial factors<br />- multilevel lifecourse and systems theories<br />- prevention science fundamentals<br />- return on investment<br />- equity and efficiency</p><p>Harnessing the power of scientific inquiry and codifying the knowledge base for a burgeoning field POPULATION HEALTH SCIENCE<em> </em>arms readers with tools to shift the curve of population health.</p>