Promoting Health by Looking Outside the Body

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• Promoting Health by Looking Outside the Body
• Howard J. Silver, Ph.D.
• Executive Director
• Consortium of Social Science Associations
• 5th Annual Nordic Health Promotion Conference
• Esbjerg, Denmark
• June 17, 2006

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• COSSA HISTORY
• 1981 Reagan
• Beyond NSF and beyond Budgets
• Office of Science and Technology Policy
• Separate Directorate at NSF
• OBSSR at NIH
• Thwarting Walker
• Toomey Amendment
• Hutchison Threat

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• COSSA ACTIVITIES
• Routine Lobbying
• Testifying
• Coalitions
• Newsletter COSSA Washington UPDATE
• Capitol Hill Briefings Receptions

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• Capitol Hill Briefings
• Growing Old in an Aging America
• Obesity, What Can Be Done Now? Examining
  Environment and Lifestyle
• The Genetic Revolution and the Meaning of
  Life How Will Society Respond to the Explosion
  of Knowledge
• Living Longer, Staying Well  Promoting Good
  Health for Older Americans
• Adolescent Health

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• COALITIONS
• Coalition to Protect Research (CPR)
• Coalition for the Advancement of Health Through
  Behavioral and Social Science Research
  (CAHT-BSSR)
• Coalition for National Science Funding
• Friends of

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• COSSA MEMBERS
• American Association for Public Opinion Research
• American Economic Association
• American Educational Research Association
• American Historical Association
• American Political Science Association
• American Psychological Association
• American Society of Criminology
• American Sociological Association
• American Statistical Association
• Association of American Geographers

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• COSSA MEMBERS CONTINUED
• Association of American Law Schools
• Law and Society Association
• Linguistic Society of America
• Midwest Political Science Association
• National Communications Association
• Rural Sociological Society
• Society for Research in Child Development
• 26 Membership Organizations
• 58 Colleges and Universities
• 13 Centers and Institutes

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• TROY DUSTER
• American Sociological Association
• 2005 Presidential Address
• Inside and Outside the Body
• New Emphasis on Looking Only at Data
• Inside blood, genes, neurotransmitters

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GENES TO SOCIETY OVER THE LIFE COURSE Adapted by
Patricia Mabray from T. Glass, M. Mc Atee and D.
Abrams

Global economic and geopolitical level
National and state level
Community and workgroup level
Individual, family and social group level
Lifespan
Organ level
Cellular level
Molecular level
Genomic level
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• INDIVIDUAL, FAMILY, AND
• SOCIAL GROUP
• Genetic Factors
• Early Life Experiences National Childlrens
  Study
• Prenatal, perinatal, postnatal
• Psychological Factors depression, coping
  systems, resilience, self-efficacy
• Family situations new definitions of family

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• INDIVIDUAL, FAMILY AND
• SOCIAL GROUP
• Peer Pressure adolescence, ADDHealth
• Place, Race and Ethnicity, Gender
• Health Disparities
• SES especially Education
• Superstition, Ignorance, Religious Intolerance
• Aging Health and Retirement Study

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• COMMUNITY AND WORKING GROUP
• School Readiness
• Community Norms, Role Models
• Social Capital
• Social Networks
• Community Design and Built Environment
• Neighborhood Efficacy Sampson, et. al.

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• COMMUNITY AND WORKING GROUP
• Cohort Effect
• Employment Status and Working Conditions
  decline of unions
• Housing Arrangements especially for elderly
• Civic Journalism media marketing strategies
  that encourage community mobilization

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• NATIONAL AND STATE AFFECTS
• Importance of Public Policies
• Accessibility, Health Insurance Massachusetts
  Experiment
• Economic and Social Policies Family and Medical
  Leave Act
• Laws and Regulations Tobacco, Pollution, Toxic
  Waste, Environmental Justice
• War fundamentally alters social conditions
  lethal risks bombs, bullets and disease
• Costs/Unintended Consequences

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• GLOBAL ECONOMICS AND GEOPOLITICS
• UN Millennium Development Goals
• Globalization
• Global Health Initiatives
• Global Demographics population growth, aging,
  children
• Pollution, Global Warming

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• GLOBAL ECONOMICS AND GEOPOLITICS
• Migration, Immigration
• Urbanization
• Absorptive Capacity
• Linkages Health with agriculture, finance,
  planning, trade, utilities, communication,
  transportation

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• ACTORS AND TOOLS
• Media
• Drug Marketers, Doctors
• Groups NGOs
• Multi-approaches
• Multi-levels of influence
• Cyberinfrastructure

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• Nils Dulaire The fundamental essence of global
  healthintricate web of connections.
• Frances Hesselbaine The dream healthy children
  everywhere, healthy families, healthy communities
  a healthy global society where equal access to
  health care is the norm, not the exception.

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• THANK YOU
• Howard Silver
• silverhj_at_cossa.org
• www.cossa.org