Social Injustice and Public Health

Part I: Introduction; 1. The Nature of Social Injustice and Its Impact on Public Health, Barry S. Levy and Victor W. Sidel; Part II: How the Health of Specific Population Groups is Affected by Social Injustice; 2. The Socioeconmically Disadvantaged, Michael Marmot and Ruth Bell; 3. Racial and Ethnic Minorities, Carol Easley Allen and Cheryl E. Easley; 4. Women, Stacey J. Rees and Wendy Chavkin; 5. Children, Sara Rosenbaum and Chung-Hi H. Yoder; 6. Older People, Caroll L. Estes and Stven P. Wallace; 7. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender/Transsexual Individuals, Emilia Lombardi and Talia Bettcher; 8. People with Disabilities, Nora Ellen Groce; 9. Incarcerated People, Ernest M. Drucker; 10. Homeless People, Lillian Gelberg and Lisa Arangua; 11. Forced Migrants: Refugess and Internally Displaced Persons, Michael Toole; Part III: How Social Injustice Affects Health; 12. Medical Care, H. Jack Geiger; 13. Infectious Diseases, Joia S. Mukherjee and Paul E. Farmer; 14. Nutrition, J. Larry Brown; 15. Chronic Diseases, Derek Yach; 16. Mental Health, Carles Muntaner and Jeanne Geiger-Brown; 17. Assaultive Violence and War, James A. Mercy; 18. Environmental Health, Colin D. Butler and Anthony J. McMichael; 19. Occupational Safety and Health, Andrea Kidd Taylor and Linda Rae Murray; 20. Oral Health, Myron Allukian, Jr. and Alice M. Horowitz; 21. International Health, Barry S. Levy and Victor W. Sidel; Part IV: What Needs to Be Done; 22. Addressing Social in a Human Rights Context, Sofia Gruskin and Paula Braveman; 23. Promoting Social Injustice Through Public Health Policie, Programs, and Services, Alonzo Plough; 24. Strengthening Communities and the Roles of Individuals in Community Life, Robert E. Aronson, Kay Lovelace, John W. Hatch, and Tony L. Whitehead; 25. Promoting Social Justice Through Education in Public Health, Robert S. Lawrence; 26. Researching Critical Questions on Social Justice and Public Health: An Ecosocial Perspective, Nancy Krieger; 27. Protecting Human Rights Through International and National Law, Peter Weiss and Henry A. Freedman; 28. Promoting Equitable and Sustainable Human Development, Richard Jolly; Epilogue