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Index
Cover
Half-Title
Title
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
1. The Organisation of Misery
A Tale of Two Cities . . . And they are Both in Glasgow
Social Gradients? Focus on the Richest? Don’t Poor Countries have to Worry About Poverty?
Rich Countries, Good Health?
Money – Does it Matter Or Not?
Not Just Income, Society!
Poverty: Absolute Or Relative?
Poverty? Inequality? Empowerment? Don’t We Know the Causes of Ill Health?
2. Whose Responsibility?
Food And Fascism
What is the Argument – Science or Something Else?
Rational Obesity?
Inequities in Health and ‘Lifestyle’ – The Causes of the Causes
Obesity and Overweight – Genes or Education?
Alcohol – Just Personal Responsibility?
Whose Responsibility?
Don’t People Have Poor Health Because They Don’t Have Health Care?
3. Fair Society, Healthy Lives
Social Justice and Avoidable Health Inequalities Inequities
Maximising Welfare
Promoting Freedom
Rewarding Virtue
Ideology And Evidence
4. Equity from the Start
Childhood Experience Affects Adult Health . . . and Crime
Inequalities in Early Child Development – The Social Gradient Starts Early
Early Child Development – Where Should Parents Be?
Do Parents Really Matter or are they Just Bystanders?
How the Social Gradient Gets Under the Skin – Biological Embedding
What Can we do About Problems of Early Child Development?
Equality of Opportunity?
5. Education and Empowerment
Education is Good . . . for Child Survival
. . . And for Reducing Fertility
. . . And for Your Own Health
. . . And for Protecting Yourself
. . . And for Your Country’s Development
Understanding and Addressing Inequalities . . . by Learning from Finland
. . . And, Although there are Socio-Economic Differences in Education, Poverty is not Destiny!
. . . And for Moving to Gender Equity
What Can be Done to Improve Education?
6. Working to Live
If you Think Alan had it Bad . . .
Work and Health
Inequities in Power, Money and Resources Come to the Work Place – Not Just Physical and Chemical Exposures: Three Ways Work can Damage Health
Employment Conditions and Health
Making Things Better . . . By Getting Conditions of Employment Right
. . . And Pursuing Policies that Create Jobs, not Destroy them – the Causes of the Causes
7. Do Not Go Gentle
Old in the Global North, Young in the Global South?
Great Inequities in Length of Life . . . Between Countries
. . . And Within Countries
Inequities in Quality of Life
Achieving Health Equity at Older Ages
Empowerment: Material, Psychosocial and Political
8. Building Resilient Communities
Making Communities Socially Habitable
Building Socially Sustainable Communities and Resilience
Improving the Material Environment
Age-Friendly Cities
Housing
9. Fair Societies
Society: Right and Left
Learning
Money and Other Things That Matter
Patrimonial Capitalism – Piketty Style
Inequalities in Society Lead to Inequalities in Health; Money Matters
Social Hierarchies and Health are About much more than Income
Health of Societies is also about More than Income
10. Living Fairly in the World
Fair Finance: The Global Financial Crisis and Austerity
A Social Protection Floor?
Economic Growth, Inequality And Social Investment
Trade
Debt and Aid
Food Glorious Food
11. The Organisation of Hope
The Triangle that Moves the Mountain
The Best Of Times, The Worst Of Times
Moving Forward
A Planet-Shaped Hole
Across The Spectrum From Low-To High-Income Countries
Notes
Acknowledgements
Index
A Note on the Author
By the Same Author
Copyright
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