Social Injustice and Public Health

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.

Barry S. Levy, M.D., M.P.H., is a physician and epidemiologist who has edited and written 22 previous books on the public health consequences of social injustice, war and terrorism, occupational and environmental health, climate change, and related issues, and has written more than 250 journal articles and book chapters on these subjects. He is an Adjunct Professor of Public Health at Tufts University School of Medicine. He previously worked as a CDC epidemiologist, a University of Massachusetts Medical School professor, and director of global health programs and projects. He is a past president of the American Public Health Association and a recipient of its Sedgwick Memorial Medal.

- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
- Index