Full Description
The fourth edition of Social Injustice and Public Health, a completely updated edition of the classic text, is a comprehensive, evidence-based resource for understanding and addressing the profound impacts of social injustice on public health. In 31 chapters written by experts in public health, human rights, medicine, nursing, law, and social science, this highly readable book documents the adverse effects of social injustice on specific populations and specific aspects of public health.
The book is divided into four parts. Part I explores the nature of social injustice and its adverse effects on public health. Part II describes how social injustice affects the health of specific population groups: socioeconomically disadvantaged people, people of color, women, children, older people, LGBTQ people, people with disabilities, incarcerated people, people experiencing homelessness, and forced migrants. Part III addresses how social injustice affects specific aspects of public health: medical care, nutrition, communicable and noncommunicable diseases, mental health, violence including war, environmental and occupational health, oral health, and global health. Part IV discusses an agenda for action to address social injustice, based on human rights, public health policy and practice, stronger communities, education, research, law, social movements, and equitable and sustainable human development.
Enriched with photographs and illustrative examples and featuring contributions from national and global experts, Social Injustice and Public Health is the definitive resource on understanding and addressing the most important challenges to the public's health.
Contents
Part I: Introduction
Chapter 1: The Nature of Social Injustice and Its Impact on Public Health
Barry S. Levy
Box 1-1: Definitions and Concepts of Social Justice
Part II: How Social Injustice Affects the Health of Specific Population Groups
Chapter 2: Socioeconomically Disadvantaged People
Michael Marmot and Ruth Bell
Box 2-1: Summary of Recommendations from the Marmot Review 10 Years On
Chapter 3: People of Color
Carol Easley Allen and Cheryl Easley
Box 3-1: Racial and Ethnic Definitions for the 2030 U.S. Census
Box 3-2: American Shame: High Maternal Mortality Ratio in African-American Women
Linda Villarosa
Box 3-3: Types of Racism and Related Concepts
Chapter 4: Women
Gina Maranto
Chapter 5: Children
Luz Claudio and Juan Antonio Ortega-García
Box 5-1: Childhood Lead Toxicity
Howard Hu
Chapter 6: Older People
Carroll Estes, Nicholas B. DiCarlo, Brittney L. Pond, and Jarmin C. Yeh
Chapter 7: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer/Questioning People
Emilia Lombardi and Talia Mae Bettcher
Chapter 8: People with Disabilities
Nora Groce
Box 8-1: Terminology
Box 8-2: Disability and Education
Box 8-3: Similarities and Differences Among People with Disabilities
Chapter 9: Incarcerated People
David H. Cloud
Box 9-1: Political Prisoners
William F. Schulz
Chapter 10: People Experiencing Homelessness
Howard Padwa, Bikki Tran Smith, Roya Ijadi-Maghsoodi, Katherine Vickery, and Lillian Gelberg
Chapter 11: Forced Migrants: Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons
Michael Toole
Box 11-1: The Suffering of Displaced People: Three Vignettes
Jennifer Leaning
Part III. How Social Injustice Affects Aspects of Public Health
Chapter 12: Medical Care
Oliver Fein
Box 12-1: What Is Single-Payer Healthcare?
Steffie Woolhandler and David U. Himmelstein
Chapter 13: Communicable Diseases
Joia S. Mukherjee
Box 13-1: The AIDS Movement
Box 13-2: Case Study of a Man with Tuberculosis
Box 13-3: Inequities Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Mary T. Bassett
Chapter 14: Nutrition
J. Larry Brown
Box 14-1: Definitions of Key Terms
Box 14-2: Obesity
Chapter 15: Noncommunicable Diseases
Mariachiara Di Cesare, Honor Bixby, Reza Majdzadeh, and J. Jaime Miranda
Box 15-1: The Impact of Systemic and Structural Racism on Noncommunicable Diseases in the United States
Barry S. Levy
Box 15-2: Addressing Noncommunicable Diseases During Humanitarian Crises
Chapter 16: Violence
Colleen Ray, Sara DeGue, and James A. Mercy
Box 16-1: Firearm Violence in the United States
David Hemenway
Box 16-2: Cure Violence: The Epidemic Control Method for Reducing Violence
Charles Ransford and Gary Slutkin
Chapter 17: War
Barry S. Levy
Box 17-1: Nuclear Weapons and Social Injustice
Robert M. Gould and Patrice M. Sutton
Chapter 18: Mental Health
Carles Muntaner, Pablo Galvez-Hernandez, Virginia Gunn, Edwin Ng, Haejoo Chung, Philipp Hessel, and William W. Eaton
Box 18-1: The Opioid Epidemic
Martha Waller and William Wieczorek
Chapter 19: Environmental Health
Barry S. Levy
Box 19-1: Impact of Natural Disasters on Social Justice
Linda Young Landesman
Box 19-2: Climate Justice
Rohini J. Haar and Barry S. Levy
Box 19-3: Planetary Health
Samuel S. Myers and Jonathan A. Patz
Chapter 20: Occupational Health and Safety
Linda Rae Murray
Chapter 21: Oral Health
Myron Allukian, Jr., Alice M. Horowitz, and J. Brett Ryan
Box 21-1: Oral Health Inequalities in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Chapter 22: Global Health
Barry S. Levy
Box 22-1: Trafficking in Persons
Box 22-2: Hunger and Malnutrition in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Box 22-3: Export of Hazardous Substances from High-Income Countries to Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Part IV. An Agenda for Action
Chapter 23: Addressing Social Injustice in a Human Rights Context
Sofia Gruskin and Paula Braveman
Chapter 24: Promoting Social Justice Through Public Health Policy
Kathleen M. Rest, Jarasa Kanok, and Pallavi Phartiyal
Box 24-1: State Government Intervention: Reforms in State Laws for a Minimum Wage and Workplace Protection for Farmworkers
Box 24-2: A Local Government Initiative with Universal Basic Income
Box 24-3: The Clean Power Prescription: Addressing the Physical, Economic, and Environmental Health of Patients
Chapter 25: Promoting Social Justice Through Public Health Practice
Joshua Sharfstein, Michelle Spencer, and Keshia M. Pollack Porter
Chapter 26: Strengthening Communities and the Roles of Individuals in Building Community Life
Robert E. Aronson, John W. Hatch, Tony L. Whitehead, and Samhar Almomani
Box 26-1: Strengthening Communities in Low-Income Countries
Gail Snetro and Angela M. Brasington
Box 26-2: How a Community-Based Foundation Addresses Health Consequences of Social Injustice
Martin D. Cohen
Chapter 27: Promoting Social Justice Through Education in Public Health
Robert S. Lawrence
Box 27-1: International Declaration of Health Rights
Box 27-2: Developing a Community-Engaged Master of Public Health Program in Health Equity
Shelley K. White
Chapter 28: A Critical Research Agenda for Social Justice and Public Health: An Ecosocial Proposal
Nancy Krieger
Chapter 29: Protecting Human Rights Through International and National Law
Henry A. Freedman and Martha F. Davis
Box 29-1: Preventing Torture
Leonard S. Rubenstein and Vincent Iacopino
Chapter 30: Learning from the Social Movements of the 1960s
Oliver Fein and Charlotte Phillips
Chapter 31: Promoting Health with Equitable and Sustainable Human Development
Richard Jolly and Updated by Mark Sidel
Box 31-1: The Roles of International Nongovernmental Organizations in Promoting Equitable and Sustainable Human Development
Raymond C. Offenheiser and Paul C. Perrin
Box 31-2: The Roles of Private Philanthropy in Promoting Equitable and Sustainable Human Development
Mark Sidel
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