The basic concept of a public health pyramid supposes that there are societal interventions which have relative value as far as their health promoting effects and for which efforts directed at improvements in these interventions will have a greater or lesser ability to improve the health of society as a whole. Either via the direct effects of stress and other negative emotions or via the indirect effects of these emotions on health behaviors, public health is profoundly affected by the negative psychoemotional states generated by virtue of one’s position in a social status hierarchy. Continue reading →