Beyond behaviour as individual choice: A call to expand understandings around social science in health research.

The focus of behavioural sciences in shaping behaviour of individuals and populations is well documented. Research and practice insights from behavioural sciences improve our understanding of how people make choices that in turn determine their health, and in turn the health of the population. However, we argue that an isolated focus on behaviour - which is one link in a chain from macro to the micro interventions - is not in sync with the public health approach which per force includes a multi-level interest.

Social determinants of tuberculosis: context, framework, and the way forward to ending TB in India.

Introduction: Social determinants are involved in the causation of TB and its adverse outcomes. This review was conducted to evolve a framework for action on social determinants with special reference to India in the context of the new END TB strategy.

Areas Covered: We reviewed the social context of TB in India as a neglected disease of the poor, its emergence in epidemic form in the colonial period, and the factors that resulted in its perpetuation and expansion in post-independence India.