Front cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copy right -- Contents -- List of abbreviations -- Chapter 1 What is social policy? -- Chapter 2 The development of the welfare state -- Chapter 3 Health policy in the post-war period -- Chapter 4 Poverty, inequality and social policy -- Chapter 5 Public health and health inequalities -- Chapter 6 Welfare pluralism -- Chapter 7 The mixed economy of community care -- Chapter 8 The changing role of the voluntary sector in the provision of social welfare -- Chapter 9 Lay perspectives and the role of informal care -- Chapter 10 The role of health and social care professionals -- Chapter 11 Social policy and health in the twenty-first century -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back cover.