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• Public Health and Social Justice
• Contents
• Introduction
• Acknowledgments
• The Editor
• The Contributors
• Part I Human Rights, Social Justice, Economics, Poverty, and Health Care
• Chapter 1 Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• Preamble
• Chapter 2 Public Health as Social Justice
• Market-Justice
• Social Justice
• Doing Justice: Building a New Public Health
• Conclusion
• Chapter 3 What We Mean by Social Determinants of Health
• Introduction: Welcoming the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health
• Changes in Political, Economic, and Social Contexts over the Past 30 Years
• Look at the Practice, Not the Theory, of Neoliberalism
• The Changing Nature of Public Interventions: The Importance of Class
• Class Alliances as Determinants of Non-Change
• The Situation in Developing Countries
• The Failure of Neoliberalism
• The Social Situation in Europe
• What Explains the Anti-European Mood Among Europe’s Working Classes?
• Components of a National Health Program: What Should It Contain?
• Chapter 4 The Magic Mountain: Trickle-Down Economics in a Philippine Garbage Dump
• Chapter 5 Family Medicine Should Encourage the Development of Luxury Practices: Negative Position
• Introduction
• Luxury Primary Care Clinics
• Luxury Primary Care Clinics and Academic Medical Centers
• Other Forms of Boutique Medical Care
• Barriers to and Legal Risks of Boutique Medicine
• Problems Associated with Luxury Medical Care
• Do Physicians Receive Luxury Care?
• Solutions
• Achieving Health Care Equity
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgment
• Part Two Special Populations
• Chapter 6 Homelessness in the United States: History, Epidemiology, Health Issues, Women, and Public
• Introduction
• Health Problems of the Homeless
• The Future
• Chapter 7 Historical and Contemporary Factors Contributing to the Plight of Migrant Farmworkers in t
• Introduction
• Migrant Agricultural Labor in the United States Today
• History of Immigration and Labor Laws
• Social and Working Conditions of Migrant Farmworkers
• Health Care Issues Related to Undocumented Migrant Farmworkers and Their Children
• Conclusions and Call to Action
• Chapter 8 The Persistence of American Indian Health Disparities
• Encounters and Epidemics
• Colonial Precedents
• Smallpox and the Moral Life
• Tuberculosis, Extinction, and the Civilizing Process
• Persistent Disparities
• Fighting Poverty with Medical Technology
• Conclusions
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 9 Prejudice and the Medical Profession: A Five-Year Update
• Historical Context
• Present-Day Concerns
• Impact of the 2007 National Healthcare Disparities Report
• Ethical Analysis
• Strategies and Reforms
• Chapter 10 Sexual and Gender Minority Health: What We Know and What Needs to Be Done
• Defining and Measuring Sexual and Gender Minorities
• Unique Clinical Concerns of Sexual and Gender Minority Populations
• Barriers to Optimal Health Care for Sexual andGender Minority Patients
• Creating a Healthier Environment for Sexual and Gender Minority Patients
• The Road Ahead
• Acknowledgments
• Human Participant Protection
• Chapter 11 Mental Disorders, Health Inequalities, and Ethics: A Global Perspective
• Introduction
• Inequalities in Mental Health
• Unmet Mental Health Needs
• Stigma and Discrimination
• Mental Disorders and Economic Development
• Integrating Mental Health into Primary Health Care Services
• Data and the Global Burden of Mental Health Problems
• References
• Chapter 12 Incarceration Nation: Health and Welfare in the Prison System in the United States
• Introduction
• Lockdown: Who Are the People Behind Bars in the United States?
• Women Behind Bars
• Kids on the (Cell) Block
• Schools or Prisons: Misplaced Priorities
• Race and Detention
• ‘‘The War on Drugs’’
• Prison Life
• Health Issues of Prisoners
• The Death Penalty
• Conclusions
• Part Three Women’s Health
• Chapter 13 Individual and Societal Forms of Violence Against Women in the United States and the Deve
• Introduction
• Individual Violence Against Women
• Societal/Structural Violence Against Women
• Conclusions
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 14 Obstacles to Abortion in the United States
• Introduction
• Epidemiology of Abortion
• Barriers to Abortion
• Effects of United States’ Policy on Access to Abortion Worldwide
• Pseudoscience and Ideology Trump Science
• Conclusions
• Chapter 15 The Way It Was
• Part Four Obesity, Tobacco, and Suicide by Firearms: The Modern Epidemics
• Chapter 16 Weighty Matters: Public Health Aspects of the Obesity Epidemic
• Part I Causes and Health and Economic Consequences of Obesity
• Part II Treatments and Approaches to Combating the Problem
• Part III A Look at Food and Beverage Industries
• Part IV Obesity Worldwide, Pathological Underweight, and Gluttony
• Part V Treatments and Public Health Approaches to Combating the Problem
• Conclusion
• Chapter 17 Cigarettes: The Other Weapons of Mass Destruction
• Dirty Bombs
• The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Treaty
• Healthcare Organizations and Medical Schools—Whose Side Are They On?
• Clearing the Air: How to Disarm the Tobacco Industry
• Chapter 18 Guns and Suicide in the United States
• Part Five Food: Safety, Security, and Disease
• Chapter 19 Factory Farms as Primary Polluter
• The Checkered History of Bayer
• Suggestions for Citizen Action
• Chapter 20 Genetically Modified Foods: Health and Environmental Risks and the Corporate Agribusiness
• Health and Environmental Risks
• Biopharming
• Vertebrates and Trees
• GM Foods and World Hunger
• The Future
• Chapter 21 Opposition to the Use of Hormone Growth Promoters in Beef and Dairy Cattle Production (Am
• Synthetic Hormones in Beef Production
• rBGH Use in Dairy Production
• A Precautionary Approach to Hormone Growth Promoters inBeef and Dairy Cattle Production
• Part Six Environmental Health
• Chapter 22 Roles and Responsibilities of Health Care Professionals in Combating Environmental Degrad
• Introduction
• Causes and Health Consequences of Environmental Degradation and Social Injustice
• Contributors to Environmental Degradation and Social Injustice
• Environmental Sexism and Racism
• Confronting Environmental Degradation and Social Injustice
• Education in Health Professions and the Medical Humanities
• Conclusions
• Chapter 23 Global Warming: A Public Health Crisis Demanding Immediate Action
• Causes of Global Warming
• Consequences of Global Warming
• Corporations, the Media and Unsound Science
• Confronting Global Warming
• Conclusions
• Chapter 24 Flowers, Diamonds, and Gold: The Destructive Public Health, Human Rights, and Environment
• Introduction: Cupid’s Poisonous and Deadly Arrow
• Flowers
• Diamonds
• Gold
• Alternatives and Solutions
• Alternative Tokens of Affection
• Chapter 25 Is a Modest Health Care System Possible?
• Energy in Health Care
• Boiling Health Care Down to Its Essentials
• The Modest Proposal
• Health Care Basics
• Some Cautions
• Concluding Note: Obesity and Climate Change
• Part Seven War and Violence
• Chapter 26 The Health Consequences of the Diversion of Resources to War and Preparation for War
• Military Spending in the United States
• Developing Countries
• What Needs to Be Done
• Chapter 27 A Brief Summary of the Medical Impacts of Hiroshima
• Chapter 28 Medical Science Under Dictatorship
• Preparatory Propaganda
• Euthanasia
• The Science of Annihilation
• Medico-Military Research
• Motivation
• The Early Change in Medical Attitudes
• The Example of Successful Resistance by the Physicians of the Netherlands
• The Situation in the United States
• Chapter 29 War, Rape, and Genocide: Never Again?
• Introduction
• History
• War and ‘‘Masculinity’’
• Violence and Rape in War
• Health Consequences
• Refugee Camps
• Human Rights Issues
• Role of Health Professionals
• Conclusions and Recommendations
• Part Eight Corporations and Public Health
• Chapter 30 Combating Corporate Control: Protecting Education, Media, Legislation, and Health Care
• Corporate Taxes and Crime
• Corporate Involvement in Education
• Corporate Control of the Media
• Corporations’ Effects on Democracy and US International Policy
• Corporate Influence on Public Health
• Chapter 31 The Pharmaceutical Industry: Friend or Foe?
• Chapter 32 Unnecessary Testing in Obstetrics, Gynecology, and General Medicine: Causes and Consequen
• Overview
• Evidence-Based Screening
• Unnecessary Testing by Clinicians and Independent Companies
• Risks of Unnecessary Testing
• Unnecessary Testing, Luxury Care, and the Erosion of Science and Medical Ethics
• Recognizing Health Scams
• Conclusion
• Part Nine Achieving Social Justice in Health Care Through Education and Activism
• Chapter 34 Promoting Public Understanding of Population Health
• Introduction
• What We Know About Population Health
• Paradigm Shifts in Public Health
• Public Dissemination of the New Science on Health
• Conclusion: A Call to Action for Public Health Professionals
• References
• Chapter 35 Some Ideas for a Common Agenda
• The Golden Rule
• From the Golden Rule and the Universal Declaration: Justice
• Good Health Is a Fundamental Right
• The Basis of Community and the Economy Is Sharing the Commons
• Prevention Is Essential
• Our Goal Together Can Be to Permanently Alter the Culture
• Chapter 36 Taking On Corporate Power-and Winning
• India’s Generic Gambit
• Babyfood Justice
• Essential Drugs
• Pittston Coal Strike
• Banning the Global Waste Trade
• Providing Civil Justice
• Nutrition Labeling
• Antarctica Off-Limits to Mining
• Fishing-Free Reserves
• Forest Protection up the Supply Chain
• Sweating for Sweat-Free Goods
• Outlawing Bribery
• Full-Time Strike at UPS
• M.A.I. Goes M.I.A.
• Saving Organic Standards
• The Spread of Smokefree Spaces
• Cochabamba Claims the Right to Water
• Preserving Biodiversity
• Solar Wins at the Ballot Box
• Science for Women
• Arsenic No More
• Reaching for Sustainability
• Taking on Predatory Lending
• Computer TakeBack Campaign
• Canceling Third World Debt
• Chapter 37 US Health Care: Single-Payer or Market Reform
• Failure of Incremental Reforms
• Consumer-Directed Health Care, Another Disappointment
• Chapter 38 US Health Professionals Oppose War
• World War I
• The War in Vietnam
• The 1991 Gulf War
• Lessons Learned
• Chapter 39 The Residency Program in Social Medicine of Montefiore Medical Center: 37 Years of Missio
• Historical Background and Context
• Hallmarks of Innovation
• Outcomes
• Leadership and Excellence
• RPSM and Its Institutional Relationships
• Lessons Learned
• Looking Ahead
• Summing Up
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 40 Stories and Society: Using Literature to Teach Medical Students About Public Health and S
• Introduction
• Current Medical School Training in Ethics and Public Health
• Social Injustices and Public Health
• Literature and Public Health
• Photography and Public Health Education
• The Call to Service
• Doctors as Social Justice Advocates
• Conclusions
• Acknowledgments
• Index