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Emerging Themes in Epidemiology BioMedCentral Analytic perspective Open Access Pathways to health: a framework for health-focused research and practice Nancy L Fleischer*1, Ann M Weber2, Susan Gruber2, Karina Z Arambula2, Maya Mascarenhas2, Jessica A Frasure2, Constance Wang2 and S Leonard Syme3 Address: 1Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, 1214 South University Avenue, 2nd Floor, Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2548, USA, 2Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, 140 Warren Hall, MC 7360, Berkeley, CA 94720-7360, USA and 3Division of Epidemiology, Division of Community Health Human Development, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, 140 Warren Hall, MC 7360, Berkeley, CA 94720-7360 USA Email: Nancy L Fleischer* - nancyfl@; Ann M Weber - amweber@; Susan Gruber - sgruber@; Karina Z Arambula - arambula@; Maya Mascarenhas - mayanina@; Jessica A Frasure - jfrasure@; Constance Wang - constancew@; S Leonard Syme - slsyme@ * Corresponding author Published: 12 December 2006 Received: 23 May 2006 Accepted: 12 December 2006 Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2006, 3:18 doi:10.1186/1742-7622-3-18 This article is available from: /content/3/1/18 ? 2006 Fleischer et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Public health research and practice is faced with three problems: 1) a focus on disease instead of health, 2) consideration of risk factor/disease relationships one at a time, and 3) attention to individuals with limited regard for the communities in which they live. We propose a framework for health-focused research and practice. This framework encompasses individ