Social Determinants of Health

Part One: Introducing the Social Determinants of Health
Chapter 1: Social Determinants of Health: Key Issues and Themes
Chapter 2: Social Structure, Living Conditions, and Health

Part Two: Income Security and Employment in Canada
Chapter 3: Income, Wealth, and Poverty: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Chapter 4: Income and Health in Canada
Chapter 5: Precarious Work and the Labour Market
Chapter 6: Health Outcomes of Labour Market Flexibility
Chapter 7: The Unhealthy Canadian Workplace
Chapter 8: Understanding and Improving the Health of Work

Part Three: Foundations of Life-long Health: Education and Childhood
Chapter 9: Early Childhood Education and Care as a Social Determinant of Health
Chapter 10: Early Child Development and Health
Chapter 11: Education as a Social Determinant

Part Four: Foundations of Life-long Health: Food and Shelter
Chapter 12: Food Insecurity
Chapter 13: Health Implications of Food Insecurity
Chapter 14: Housing
Chapter 15: Housing and Health

Part Five: Social Exclusion
Chapter 16: Social Exclusion
Chapter 17: Social Inclusion/Exclusion and Health: Dancing the Dialectic
Chapter 18: Determinants of Indigenous Peoples' Health in Colonial Canada: Unsettling the Pathology, Celebrating Strength

Part Six: Public Policy
Chapter 19: Follow the Money: How Business and Politics Define Our Health
Chapter 20: Oppressions and Access to Health Care: Contexts of Structural Violence
Chapter 21: The Politics and Policy Design of Health and Inequity in Canada
Chapter 22: Public Policy, Gender, and Health

Part Seven: Towards the Future
Chapter 23: From Social Medicine and Social Determinants to Supportive Social Environments for Health
Chapter 24: Surmounting the Barriers: Making Action on the Social Determinants of Health a Public Policy Priority

Appendix: Strengthening the Social Determinants of Health: The Toronto Charter for a Healthy Canada
Contributor Biographies
Copyright Acknowledgements
Index