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| Contributors | |
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| Introduction: Frameworks, Perspectives, Evidence | |
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| Tackling Health Inequities: A Framework for Public Health Practice | |
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| Why Health Equity? | |
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| Health Equity and Social Justice | |
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| United States: Social Inequality and the Burden of Poor Health | |
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| A Framework for Measuring Health Inequity | |
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| Promoting Social Justice through Public Health Policies, Programs, and Services | |
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| Racism, Class Exploitation, Sexism, and Health: Exposing the Roots | |
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| Structural Racism and Community Building | |
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| Coronary Heart Disease, Chronic Inflammation, and Pathogenic Social Hierarchy: A Biological Limit to Possible Reductions in Morbidity and Mortality | |
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| Social Sources of Racial Disparities in Health | |
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| Class Exploitation and Psychiatric Disorders | |
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| Beyond the Income Inequality Hypothesis: Class, Neo-Liberalism, and Health Inequalities | |
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| Gender Inequity in Health: Why It Exists and How We Can Change It | |
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| Practitioners Take Action: Strategies for Organizational Change and Working with Communities | |
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| Initiating Social Justice Action through Dialogue in a Local Health Department: The Ingham County Experience | |
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| The Metro Louisville Center for Health Equity: Expanding the Circle of Engagement | |
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| Exploring the Intersection of Public Health and Social Justice: The Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative | |
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| Using Our Voice: Forging a Public Health Practice for Social Justice | |
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| Estimation of Health Benefits from a Local Living Wage Ordinance | |
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| Protecting Health with Environmental Impact Assessment: A Case Study of San Francisco Land Use Decision Making | |
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| The Community Action Model in a Public Health Department Setting Case Study: Tobacco Divestment on College Campuses | |
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| Tackling the Root Causes of Health Disparities through Community Capacity Building | |
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| Institutionalizing Health Equity and Social Justice in King County, Washington | |
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| Street Science: Local Knowledge and Environmental Justice | |
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| Measuring Social Determinants of Health Inequities: The CADH Health Equity Index | |
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| Place Matters: Building Partnerships among Communities and Local Public Health Departments | |
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| Shifting Consciousness and Paradigms | |
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| Unnatural Causes: Using Media to Build a Constituency for Health Equity | |
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| Talking about Public Health: Developing America's “Second Language” | |
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| Helping Public Health Matter: Strategies for Building Public Awareness | |
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| The Ethics of the Medical Model in Addressing the Root Causes of Health Disparities in Local Public Health Practice | |
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| Teaching Social Inequalities in Health: Barriers and Opportunities | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Selected References | |
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| Guidelines for Achieving Health Equity in Public Health Practice | |
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| How Social justice Becomes Embodied in Differential Disease and Mortality Rates | |
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| Eliminating Health Inequity: The Role of Local Public Health and Community Organizing | |
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| People's Charter for Health | |
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| Index | |