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This book is intended as a core textbook for courses in public health that examines current issues in health from a social and behavioral science perspective It is a cross-disciplinary course (public health, medical sociology, health psychology, medical anthropology) and thus there are many ways tteach the course based on a particular instructors perspective The authors wrote the book because they were dissatisfied with the way other texts apply social science tpublic health and found that many texts being used were from related fields such as medicine, nursing or general healthThe authors are planning tda major revision based on reviews they have collected and the reviews we have collected We believe the revised edition will essentially be a new text based on rich feedback They will include new theory, new cases, new research, and a rich ancillary package They will alsreduce the frameworks presented tmake the book more readable tstudents