Social inequality and public health

Salvatore J. Babones is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at The University of Sydney. His work has appeared in the "Journal of Sociology, Social Science & Medicine", and the "Handbook of Social Problems". His most recent book is "Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives" (2006), co-edited with Christopher Chase-Dunn. Salvatore Babones received his Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University in 2003.

• Contents: Introduction ~ Salvatore Babones; Pathway one: Differences in individual health behaviours: The role of time preference and perspective in socio-economic inequalities in health related behaviors ~ Jean Adams; Examination of the built environment and prevalence of obesity ~ Tamara Dubowitz; Reinventing healthy and sustainable communities ~ Mary E. Northridge, Elliott D. Sclar, Annie Feighery, Maryann Z. Fiebach and Emily Karpel Kurtz; Pathway two: Group advantage and disadvantage: How and why do interventions that increase health overall widen inequalities within populations ~ Martin White, Jean Adams and Peter Heywood; A review of intergenerational socioeconomic factors and perinatal outcomes ~ Debbie Barrington; From adversary to ally: the evolution of non-governmental organizations in the context of health reform in Santiago and Montevideo ~ Javier Pereira Bruno and Ronald Angel; Pathway three: Psychosocial factors in individual health: Health inequalities and the role of work psychosocial factors: the Whitehall II study ~ Eric Brunner; Inequality, psychosocial health, and societal health: A model of inter-group conflict ~ Siddharth Chandra; The social epidemiology of population health during the time of transition from communism in Central and Eastern Europe ~ Arjumand Siddiqui, Martin Bobak and Clyde Hertzman; Pathway four: Health and unhealthy societies: The impact of inequality: empirical evidence ~ Richard Wilkinson; 'Public goods', metropolitan inequality and population health in comparative perspective: policy & theory ~ J James R. Dunn and Nancy A. Ross; From societal equity to individual health ~ Salvatore Babones; Public understanding of the new public health: Health, inequalities and mobilization: human rights and the millennium development goals ~ Paul Nelson; Promoting public understanding of population health ~ Stephen Bezruchka; Conclusion ~ Salvatore Babones.

"This book will form a very useful addition to the sparse canon of literature exploring the relationship between social inequality and health." Journal of Public Health