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    Social Injustice and Public Health by Levy, Barry S.;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 4
    • Publisher OUP USA
    • Date of Publication 29 April 2026

    • ISBN 9780197803714
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages720 pages
    • Size 235x156 mm
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 48 b/w illustrations
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    Short 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. 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.

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    Long 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.

    The book is packed full of data, rich with details, and organized into four key sections ... [it] is an important reference that fills a need in the field.

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    Table of 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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