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"stimulating a movement in which communities are convening stakeholders across sectors to pursue shared goals and collect data to track progress.23 Clinicians and health care systems find it unrealistic and overwhelming to tackle complex social problems, but they are not alone. Teachers, police officers, parents, employers, and many others also feel powerless to solve social problems without partners. Meaningful change requires broader thinking than what Chetty et al recommend: "changing health behaviors among low-income individuals." As the history of tobacco control teaches, multilevel interventions across the socioecological framework-from legislation to marketing-are essential to advance population health. A culture of collaboration across sectors provides a venue for medicine and public health to join forces with business leaders, school systems, the park authority, investors, retailers, the media, and community groups. Each sector can bring their respective skills to the task, together accomplishing more by leveraging resources and talent than any sector could achieve alone. A medical journal article reporting that income is significantly associated with life expectancy is a call to arms, but the answer cannot come from medicine or public health alone but from the health professions working with partners who share an interest in prosperity and good health. Finding common causes, bridging silos, and leveraging talents hold the promise of much deeper influence and benefit than yesterday's fragmented efforts could achieve."

Why data resource profiles (DRPs)? We can't do epidemiology without data. Data are cen- tral to epidemiology's three main challenges: to describe health states in populations, make inferences about their causes and to apply that knowledge to improve health. The more high quality data we have to support these three tasks, the better.10,11 The challenge of providing health data coverage on a global scale is immense. Termed a 'scandal of invisi- bility', in the world's least developed countries more than two-thirds of all births and deaths go unregis- tered.12 Meanwhile, in advanced industrialised na- tions publicly funded data collection systems are under threat, particularly at a time of state retrench- ment.13 In the UK and Canada the long-form census was cancelled. Canada, too, cancelled some of its premier longitudinal studies of children and youth, leaving the country with little signal about the state of human capability development of its future gener- ations. Removing parts of the publicly funded health information infrastructure is easy, but rebuilding sur- veillance will require orders of magnitude more vision, dedication and money.

"A growing body of mortality research on immigrants has shown that the longer they live in this country, the worse their rates of heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes. And while their American-born children may have more money, they tend to live shorter lives than the parents. "

This article speaks to the contrast Geoffrey Rose drew, but extended beyond the arena of population health. "Real reductions in drug supply and demand will come through improving public health and safety, strengthening anticorruption measures - especially those that combat money laundering - and investing in sustainable development. We also believe that the smartest pathway to tackling drugs is decriminalizing consumption and ensuring that governments regulate certain drugs, including for medical and recreational purposes. "

Disease isn't synonymous with its etiological agent or the map of its victims, whether or not either is placed within a... context that acknowledges the functional ecologies humans, livestock and wildlife share. [This] misses the structural factors underlying pathogen emergence and by virtue of that omission the pathogens' likely reemergence. Every one of the new potentially human-specific influenzas, for instance, have evolved out of industrial poultry and livestock. "

"Female identical twins, even when raised together, differ significantly in health status depending on the economic class they attain as adults" Study by Krieger.

"European Journal of Ageing June 2016, Volume 13, Issue 2, pp 87-90 | Cite as Increasing social participation of older people: are there different barriers for those in poor health? Introduction to the special section"

"In much of this research, white Americans appeared somehow to be immune to the negative health effects that accompany relentless striving. As Dr. Brody put it when telling me about the Pittsburgh study, "We found this for black persons from disadvantaged backgrounds, but not white persons.""