Table of Contents

1: Michael Marmot: Introduction
2: Eric Brunner and Michael Marmot: Social organization, stress and health
3: Michael Wadsworth and Suzie Butterworth: Early life
4: David Blane: The life course, the social gradient and health
5: Mel Bartley, Jane Ferrie and Scott M Montgomery: Health and labour market disadvantage: unemployment, non-employment and job insecurity
6: Michael Marmot, Johannes Siegrist and Tores Theorell: Health and the psychosocial environment at work
7: Mark McCarthy: Transport and health
8: Stephen A Stansfeld: Social supoort and social cohesion
9: Aileen Robertson, Eric Brunner and Aubrey Sheiham: Food is a political issue
10: Mary Shaw, Danny Dorlin and George Davey Smith: Poverty, social exclusion, and minorities
11: Martin J Jarvis and Jane Wardle: Social patterning of individual health behaviours: the case of cigarette smoking
12: James Y Nazroo and David R Williams: The social determination of ethnic/racial inequalities in health
13: Anne McMunn, Elizabeth Breeze, Alissa Goodman, James Nazroo and Zoe Oldfield: Social determinants of health in older age
14: Mai Stafford and Mark McCarthy: Neighbourhoods, housing and health
15: Anne M Johnson, Catherine H Mercer, Jackie A Cassell: Social determinants, sexual behaviour and sexual health
16: Richard G Wilkinson: Ourselves and others - for better or worse: social vulnerability and inequality

Reviews

From reviews of the previous edition`Marmot and Wilkinson have made a timely addition to the maturing field of health and health policy research. This volume should be relevant to anyone interested in health determinants, given its clear organization and concise writing.' Social Science & Medicine`It is a dense, fascinating and wide-ranging collection... an excellent primer for those who wish to engage in the debate about how this policy can be taken forward to make a real difference to the lives of the people whose deprivations are analyses in its pages.' Health Matters`The book surverys the effects of social inequality on health and offers a forum in which these can be linked with more obvious influences.' Times Higher Education Supplement`At the core of Social Determinants of Health is the ground breaking Whitehall study... it found that wealth and status are the crucial factors in health and longevity.' The Guardian