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.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.Distilled into nine foundational principles, this book guides readers through population science studies that strategically incorporate:? macrosocial factors? multilevel, lifecourse, and systems theories? prevention science fundamentals? return on investment? equity and efficiencyHarnessing the power of scientific inquiry and codifying the knowledge base for a burgeoning field, POPULATION HEALTH SCIENCE arms readers with tools to shift the curve of population health.

1. An introduction to population health science2. Conceptualizing and evaluating causes for population health science3. The causes of cases versus causes of incidence4. Population health across levels, systems, and the lifecourse5. Ubiquity and the macrosocial determinants of population health6. Causal architecture to understand what matters most: theory7. Causal architecture and what matters most: quantitative examples8. Valuing population health interventions, measuring return on investment9. Equity and efficiency in population health science10. Prediction in population health science11. Case study: Can we reduce obesity by encouraging people to eat better?12. Case study: Simulating the impact of high-risk and population intervention strategies for the prevention of disease13. Tensions in population health science