ABSTRACT
Global public health practice is understood to be the circulation of global health issues into the social and cultural sphere, which were traditionally perceived through a biomedicine perspective. This chapter will introduce readers to the significance of social theory in global public health and outline various theoretical frameworks which can be used. It will consider ‘Critical Public Health’, ‘Feminism’, ‘Social Constructionism’, and ‘Structuration’ theory, affording examples to emphasise thinking around theory and application. It concludes that the evidence base of global public health should be positioned more coherently within theoretical perspectives which reflect its increasing relevance in the social sciences.
