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Commentary: Macrosocial Determinants, Epidemiology, and Health Policy: should politics and economics be banned from social determinants of health research?

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  1. Departments of Psychiatry, Public Health Sciences, and Nursing, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Carles Muntaner

  2. Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Haejoo Chung

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After considering the reasons that epidemiologists have restricted their studies, these authors find reason for optimism in the new interest in macrosocial factors.

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Muntaner, C., Chung, H. Commentary: Macrosocial Determinants, Epidemiology, and Health Policy: should politics and economics be banned from social determinants of health research?. J Public Health Pol 29, 299–306 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1057/jphp.2008.23

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