Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>This completely updated fourth edition of Social Injustice and Public Health provides an evidence-based resource for understanding and addressing the profound impacts of social injustice on public health. In 31 chapters written by experts in public health, human rights, medicine, and other health professions as well as law and social science, this highly readable book documents the inequities and adverse effects of social injustice on specific population groups (vulnerable populations), including socioeconomically disadvantaged people; people of color; women; children; older people; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning people; people with disabilities; incarcerated people; people experiencing homelessness; and refugees and internally displaced persons. It also documents how social injustice affects specific areas of public health, including medical care, communicable diseases, nutrition, noncommunicable diseases, mental health, violence, war, environmental health, occupational health and safety, oral health, and global health. In its last section, it provides a detailed agenda for action, including addressing social injustice in a human rights context; promoting social justice through public health policy, public health practice, and education in public health; strengthening communities; performing critical research; protecting human rights through international and national law; learning from the social movements of the 1960s; and promoting health with equitable and sustainable human development. This fourth edition of the book includes new chapters on children, incarcerated people, noncommunicable diseases, war, public health policy, and public health practice as well as new textboxes on the suffering of displaced people, COVID-19, the opioid epidemic, firearm violence, the epidemic control method for reducing violence, and climate justice.</jats:p>