"A project of the National Association of County and City Health Officials."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tackling health inequities : a framework for public health practice / Richard Hofrichter -- Why health equity? / Amartya Sen -- Health equity and social justice / Fabienne Peter -- United States : social inequality and the burden of poor health / Laura D. Kubzansky ... [et al.] -- A framework for measuring health inequity / Yukiko Asada -- Promoting social jsutice through public health policies, programs, and services / Alonzo Plough -- Structural racism and community building / Keith Lawrence ... [et al.] -- Coronary heart disease, chronic inflammation, and pathogenic social hierarchy : a biological limit to possible reductions in morbidity and mortality / Rodrick Wallace, Deborah Wallace, and Robert G. Wallace -- Social sources of racial disparities in health / David R. Williams and Pamela Braboy Jackson -- Class exploitation and psychiatric disorders / Carles Muntaner ... [et al.] -- Beyond the income inequality hypothesis : class, neo-liberalism, and health inequalities / David Coburn -- Gender inequity in health : why it exists and how we can change it / Gita Sen and Piroska Ostlin -- Initiating social justice action through dialogue in a local health department : the Ingham County experience / Doak Bloss -- The Metro Louisville Center for Health Equity : expanding the circle of engagement / Adewale Troutman --

Exploring the intersection of public health and social justice : the Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative / Bob Prentice and Njoke Thomas -- Using our voice : forging a public health practice for social justice / Rajiv Bhatia ... [et al.] -- Estimation of health benefits from a local living wage ordinance / Rajiv Bhatia and Mitchell Katz -- Protecting health with environmental impact assessment : a case study of San Francisco land use deicsion making / Rajiv Bhatia -- The community action model in a public health department setting case study : tobacco divestment on college campuses / Mele Lau Smith ... [et al.] -- Tackling the root causes of heatlh disparities through community capacity building / Anthony B. Iton ... [et al.] -- Institutionalizing health equity and social justice in King County, Washington / Ngozi Oleru, Michael Gedeon, and Matías Valenzuela -- Street science : local knowledge and environmental justice / Jason Corburn -- Measuring social determinants of health inequities : the CADH health equity index / Baker Salsbury, Elaine O'Keefe, and Jennifer Kertanis -- Place matters : building partnerships among communities and local public health departments / Gail C. Christopher, Vincent Lafronza, and Natalie Burke -- Unnatural causes : using media to build a constituency for health equity / Larry Adelman -- Talking about public health : developing America's "second language" / Lawrence Wallack and Regina G. Lawrence -- Helping public health matter : strategies for buliding public awareness / Makani Themba-Nixon -- The ethics of the medical model in addressing the root causes of health disparities in local public health practice / Anthony B. Iton -- Teaching social inequalities in health : barriers and opportunities / Carles Muntaner and Haejoo Chung.

"Social justice has always been a core value driving public health. Today, much of the etiology of avoidable disease is rooted in inequitable social conditions brought on by disparities in wealth and power and reproduced through ongoing forms of oppression, exploitation, and marginalization. Tackling Health Inequities Through Public Practice raises questions and provides a starting point for health practitioners ready to reorient public health practice to address the fundamental causes of health inequities. This reorientation involves restructuring the organization, culture and daily work of public health. Tackling Health Inequities is meant to inspire readers to imagine or envision public health practice and their role in ways that question contemporary thinking and assumptions, as emerging trends, social conditions, and policies generate increasing inequities in health"--Provided by publisher.