Social determinants of health, health inequalities & social capital

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Berkman, L. and Kawachi, I. eds (2000), Social Epidemiology, Oxford University Press, New York.

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Kawachi, I., Kennedy, B. and Wilkinson, R. eds (1999), The society and population health reader—income, inequality and health, The New Press, New York.

Labonte, R. (1998), A community development approach to health promotion: a background paper on practice, tensions, strategic models and accountability requirements for health authority work on the broad determinants of health, Research Unit on Health and Behaviour Change, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh.

Marmot, M. and Wilkinson, R. (1999), Social determinants of health, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

National Health Strategy (1992), Enough to make you sick: how income and environment affect health, Melbourne.

National Health Strategy (1993), Healthy participation: achieving greater public participation and accountability in the Australian health care system, Melbourne.

People Together Project and the Victorian Local Governance Association (2000), The Power of the Community, Victorian Local Governance Association, Melbourne.

Pope, Jeanette (2000) Social capital and social capital indicators—a reading list, Public Health Information Development Unit, University of Adelaide, Adelaide.

UK Government (1998), Independent inquiry into inequalities in health, The Stationery Office, London.

Vinson, Tony (1999), Unequal in Life: The distribution of social disadvantage in Victoria and New South Wales, Ignatius Centre for Social Policy and Research, Jesuit Social Services.

Winter, I. ed. (2000) Social capital and public policy in Australia, Australian Institute of Family Studies, Melbourne.

World Bank Social Capital for Development website at
http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/scapital/whatsc.htm

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