Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iii
3. List of figures, tables, maps and boxes v
4. Preface vii
5. Notes on contributors ix
6. Introduction 1
7. Differences in individual health behaviours
8. The role of time preference and perspective in socioeconomic inequalities in health-related behaviours 9
9. Examination of the built environment and prevalence of obesity: neighbourhood characteristics, food purchasing venues, green space and distribution of Body Mass Index 25
10. Reinventing healthy and sustainable communities: reconnecting public health and urban planning 45
11. Group advantage and disadvantage
12. How and why do interventions that increase health overall widen inequalities within populations? 65
13. The metaphor of the miner’s canary and black–white disparities in health: a review of intergenerational socioeconomic factors and perinatal outcomes 83
14. From adversary to ally: the evolution of non-governmental organizations in the context of health reform in Santiago and Montevideo 97
15. Psychosocial factors in individual health
16. Health inequalities and the role of psychosocial work factors: the Whitehall II Study 115
17. Inequality, psychosocial health and societal health: a model of inter-group conflict 131
18. The social epidemiology of population health during the time of transition from communism in Central and Eastern Europe 143
19. Healthy and unhealthy societies
20. The impact of inequality: empirical evidence 159
21. ‘Public goods’, metropolitan inequality and population health in comparative perspective: policy and theory 169
22. Inequality and health: models for moving from science to policy 185
23. Conclusions Public understanding of the new public health
24. Promoting public understanding of population health 201
25. Health, inequalities and mobilisation: human rights and the Millennium Development Goals 215
26. What the public needs to know about social inequality and public health 231
27. Index 237