UNEDITED/Tomas/2012/Jun

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: -- PART I INTRODUCTION: FRAMEWORKS, PERSPECTIVES, EVIDENCE Chapter 1. Tackling Health Inequities: A Framework for Analysis Richard Hofrichter Chapter 2. Why Health Equity? Amartya Sen Chapter 3. Health Equity and Social Justice Fabienne Peter Chapter 4. United States: Social Inequality and the Burden of Poor Health Laura D. Kubzansky, Nancy Krieger, Ichiro Kawachi, Beverly Rockhill, Gillian K. Steel and Lisa F. Berkman Chapter 5. A Framework for Measuring Health Inequity Yukiko Asada Chapter 6. Promoting Social Justice Through Public Health Policies, Programs, and Services Alonzo Plough PART II: RACISM, CLASS EXPLOITATION, GENDER DISCRIMINATION AND HEALTH: EXPOSING THE ROOTS Chapter 7. Structural Racism and Community Building Anne K. Kubisch, Keith Lawrence, Stacey Sutton, Gretchen Susi, and Karen Fulbright-Anderson Chapter 8. Coronary Heart Disease, Chronic Inflammation, and Pathogenic Social Hierarchy: A Biological Limit to Possible Reductions in Morbidity and Mortality Rodrick Wallace, Deborah Wallace, and Robert G. Wallace Chapter 9. Social Sources of Racial Disparities in Health David Williams and Pamela Braboy Jackson Chapter 10. Class Exploitation and Psychiatric Disorders Carles Muntaner, Carme Borrell and Haejoo Chung Chapter 11. Beyond the Inequality Hypothesis: Class, Neo-liberalism, and Health Inequalities David Coburn Chapter 12. Gender Inequity in Health: Why It Exists and How We Can Change It Gita Sen and Piroska Ostlin PART III: PRACTITIONERS TAKE ACTION: STRATEGIES FOR ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE AND WORKING WITH COMMUNITIES Chapter 13. Initiating Social Justice Action through Dialogue in a Local Health Department: The Ingham County Experience and Beyond Doak Bloss Chapter 14. The Metro Louisville Center for Health Equity: Expanding the Circle of Engagement Adewale Troutman Chapter 15. Exploring the Intersection of Public Health and Social Justice: the Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative Njoke Thomas and Bob Prentice

Chapter 16. Using Our Voice: Forging a Public Health Practice for Social Justice Rajiv Bhatia, June Weintraub, Lili Farhang, Karen Yu and Paula Jones Chapter 17. Estimation of Health Benefits From a Local Living Wage Ordinance Rajiv Bhatia and Michael Katz Chapter 18. Protecting Health with Environmental Impact Assessment: A Case Study of San Francisco Land Use Decision-Making Study in Health Equity Practice Rajiv Bhatia Chapter 19. The Community Action Model in a Public Health Department Setting Alma Avila, Alyonik Hrushow, Susana Hennessey Lavery, Mele Lau Smith, Diane Reed, and Melinda Moore Chapter 20. Tackling the Root Causes of Health Disparities through Community Capacity Building Anthony Iton Chapter 21. Institutionalizing Health Equity and Social Justice in King County, Washington Ngozi Oleru, Michael Gedeon, and Matias Valenzuela Chapter 22. Street Science: Local Knowledge and Environmental Justice Jason Corburn Chapter 23. Measuring Social Determinants of Health Inequities: The Health Equity Index Baker Salsbury, Elaine O'Keefe, and Jennifer Kertanis Chapter 24. Place Matters: Building Partnerships Among Communities and Local Public Health Departments Gail Christopher, Vincent Lafronza, and Natalie Burke PART IV: SHIFTING CONSCIOUSNESS AND PARADIGMS Chapter 25. Strategies for Educating and Mobilizing the Public: Developing a Health Equity Campaign with California Newsreel's Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? Larry Adelman Chapter 26. Talking About Public Health Lawrence Wallack and Regina Lawrence Chapter 27. Helping Public Health Matter Makani Themba Nixon Chapter 28. The Ethics of the Medical Model in Addressing the Root Causes of Health Disparities in Local Health Practice Anthony Iton Chapter 29. Teaching Social Inequalities in Health: Barriers and Opportunities Carles Muntaner and Haejoo Chung APPENDICES A. Selected References B. Guidelines for Health Equity C. Figure 1. How Social Justice Becomes Embodied D. Figure 2. Eliminating Health Inequity: The Role of Local Public Health and Community Organizing E. People's Health Movement Charter.

"Social justice has always been a core value driving public health. Today, much of the etiology of avoidable disease is rooted in inequitable social conditions brought on by disparities in wealth and power and reproduced through ongoing forms of oppression, exploitation, and marginalization. Tackling Health Inequities Through Public Practice raises questions and provides a starting point for health practitioners ready to reorient public health practice to address the fundamental causes of health inequities. This reorientation involves restructuring the organization, culture and daily work of public health. Tackling Health Inequities is meant to inspire readers to imagine or envision public health practice and their role in ways that question contemporary thinking and assumptions, as emerging trends, social conditions, and policies generate increasing inequities in health"--Provided by publisher.

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