Social injustice and public health / edited by Barry S. Levy, Victor W. Sidel.

Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2013], ©2013.

xxvi, 559 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

2nd ed.

The Nature of Social Injustice and Its Impact on Public Health / Barry S. Levy and Victor W. Sidel -- Socioeconomically Disadvantaged People / Michael Marmot and Ruth Bell -- Racial and Ethnic Minorities / Carol Easley Allen and Cheryl E. Easley -- Women / Gina Maranto and Judy Norsigian -- Children / Sara Rosenbaum and Kay A. Johnson -- Older People / Carroll L. Estes and Steven P. Wallace -- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender/Transsexual Individuals / Emilia Lombardi and Talia Bettcher -- People with Disabilities / Nora Ellen Groce -- Prisoners / Ernest Drucker -- Homeless People / Lisa Arangua and Lillian Gelberg -- Forced Migrants: Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons / Michael Toole -- Medical Care / Oliver Fein and H. Jack Geiger -- Infectious Disease / Joia S. Mukherjee and Paul E. Farmer -- Nutrition / J. Larry Brown -- Chronic Non-Communicable Disease / Karen R. Siegel, K.M. Venkat Narayan, and Derek Yach -- Mental Health / Carles Muntaner, Edwin Ng, Haejoo Chung, and William W. Eaton -- Violence / James A. Mercy and Sarah DeGue -- Environmental Health / Colin D. Butler and Anthony J. McMichael -- Occupational Health and Safety / Andrea Kidd Taylor and Linda Rae Murray -- Oral Health / Myron Allukian, Jr., Alice M. Horowitz, and Chloe A. Wong -- International and Global Health / Barry S. Levy and Victor W. Sidel -- Addressing Social Injustice in a Human Rights Context / Sofia Gruskin and Paula Braveman -- Promoting Social Justice Through Public Health Policies, Programs, and Services / Alonzo Plough -- Strengthening Communities and the Roles of Individuals in Building Community Life / Robert E. Aronson, Kay Lovelace, John W. Hatch, and Tony L. Whitehead -- Promoting Social Justice Through Education in Public Health / Robert S. Lawrence -- Researching Critical Questions on Social Justice and Public Health: An Ecosocial Perspective / Nancy Krieger -- Protecting Human Rights through International and National Law / Peter Weiss and Henry A. Freedman -- Learning from the Social Movements of the 1960s / Oliver Fein and Charlotte Phillips -- Promoting Equitable and Sustainable Human Development / Richard Jolly -- Appendix: Organizations Addressing Issues of Social Injustice.

Includes bibliographical references and index.