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| List of tables and figures | |
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| Notes on contributors | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Social work and global health inequalities | |
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| Global health inequalities: issues for social work | |
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| The right to health: illusion or possibility? | |
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| Health, equity and social justice | |
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| Health and the environment | |
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| The health impacts of political conflict: new engagements for social work? | |
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| Reproduction in the global marketplace | |
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| Laying the foundations for good health in childhood | |
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| Violence, abuse and health | |
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| Long-term illness and disability: inequalities compounded | |
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| Social work intervention: addressing global health inequalities | |
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| Framing health inequalities as targets for social work | |
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| Poverty and health policy in China | |
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| All things equal? Social work and lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) global health inequalities | |
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| The role of advocacy assessment and action in resolving health-compromising stress in the lives of older African American homeless women | |
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| Preventive social work intervention and health promotion | |
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| Empowerment as a social determinant of Indigenous Australian health: the case of the Family Wellbeing programme | |
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| Social work in rural China: advancing women's health and well-being in the village | |
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| Social capital and health outcomes: implications for social work practice | |
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| Developing new forms of service design and delivery | |
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| Addressing mental health inequalities in Scotland through community conversation | |
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| Improving psychosocial care for cancer patients | |
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| Developing the evidence base for practice and polic | |
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| From research to policy: advocacy for families caring for children with life-limiting conditions | |
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| Data-mining'victim of crime' presentations in hospital emergency departments: a research tool with wider significance | |
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| Promoting health equality through evidence-based study health care access for Pakistani women and their children in Hong Kong | |
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| Social work education for awareness and practice | |
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| HIV/AIDS education and awareness campaign: reaching the unreached through distance learning | |
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| Social work education and indigenous health | |
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| The challenges of training social workers for health care in South Africa | |
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| Global health inequalities: social work policy and practice development | |
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| Addressing health inequalities: the role of service user and people's health movements | |
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| Engagement in international practice and policy development | |
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| Conclusion: emerging themes for practice and policy development | |
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| Index | |