[Comment] Translational social medicine for global health: introducing Cases in Global Social Medicine

“Why treat people and send them back to the conditions that make them sick?”, one of us (Michael Marmot) has asked, based on overwhelming evidence that social forces are among the strongest determinants of health and disease.1 As the epidemiologist Jaime Breilh has pointed out, social “structural processes incompatible with life and health are being globally accelerated…with an exponential growth of inequity”.2 Addressing such social forces involves action at individual, clinical, collective, and policy levels.