Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>This chapter describes promoting social justice through education in public health for students in schools of public health, medical school departments of community and preventive medicine, schools of nursing, and elsewhere. It examines how education can equip public health practitioners, researchers, and educators with a social justice perspective that will guide their future. It describes two major developments that provide crucial information and values for developing and implementing social justice curricula: the evolution of human rights law and great progress in the quantitative and qualitative analyses of the social determinants of health and how inequalities and inequities are among the most potent determinants of premature morbidity and mortality. The chapter describes principles of social justice and education in public health. It describes the logic of science added to moral and ethical reasons for social justice. It describes the historical context of the development of the social determinants of health.</jats:p>