Social PUblic Health is Local Public Health

Of the branches of public health, Social Public Health will focus on promoting institutional and interpersonal health-positive outcomes. 

• Social ecosystems are comprised of local communities interacting within their physical environment.
• Local ecosystems are geographically and culturally unique and dynamic.
• Social institutions within each locality establish roles and norms that shape community interactions. 
• Institutional norms can reflect dominant cultural norms and local community norms.
• The interaction of institutional activities within a social environment shapes the pattern of belief-based expectations that workers, families, and people operate within.
• When interactions between social institutions are aligned with health-positive community action, communities flourish. 
• When communities flourish, our social norms and the systems they operate through, adapt to current environmental pressures.
• When we adapt together, together we will be ok.