Although immigration and immigrant populations have become increasingly important foci in
public health research and practice, a social determinants of health approach has seldom …

Objectives This paper reports on findings from a systematic review designed to investigate
the state of systems science research in public health. The objectives were to:(1) explore …

The investigation of this research article is the development of studying the dynamical
behavior of the drinking population through the fractional drinking model in the sense of …

Latino immigrants in the United States constitute a paradigmatic case of a population group
subject to structural violence. Their subordinated location in the global economy and their …

Over the past two decades, exponential growth of empirical research has fueled markedly
increased concern about health disparities. In this paper, we show the progression of …

A 'risk environment'framework promotes an understanding of harm, and harm reduction, as a
matter of 'contingent causation'. Harm is contingent upon social context, comprising …

Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are estimated to occur among about one percent of
children in the United States. This estimate is in line with estimates from other industrialized …

Calls for the adoption of complex systems approaches, including agent-based modeling, in
the field of epidemiology have largely centered on the potential for such methods to examine …

The past five years have seen a growth in the interest in systems approaches in
epidemiologic research. These approaches may be particularly appropriate for social …

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 …