Table of Contents

Volume I: Health Inequalities: The Evidence 1. Classic Research Establishing the Fact of Social Inequalities in Health 2. Health Inequalities by Area, Income, Education, Occupation, Gender, and Ethnicity 3. Selection versus Causation Volume II: Health Inequalities: Causes and Pathways 4. Material Causes of Health Inequalities 5. Social Determinants of Health in the Workplace and Unemployment 6. Psychosocial Causes of Health Inequalities 7. Early Life and the Life Course Volume III: Health Inequalities: Interventions and Evaluations 8. The Theory of Public Health Intervention and Preventive Medicine 9. Overviews and Frameworks for Interventions and Policies 10. The Impact of Specific Interventions on Health and Health Inequalities 11. Early Life Interventions Intended to Have Long-Term Outcomes 12. Community Engagement Volume IV: The Political, Social, and Biological Ecology of Health 13. Relative Versus Absolute Deprivation in Relation to Health 14. Human Sensitivity to the Social Environment 15. The Stress of Modern Life 16. Non-Human Primate Studies of Stress and Social Relationships 17. Human Nature, Egalitarianism, and Social Justice 18. The Impact of Income Inequality on Health and Other Social Problems 19. An Overview

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University of Nottingham, UK