Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword Edward F. Lawlor, PhD -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. A Primer on Theories of Social Justice and Defining the Problem of Health Care -- Defining the Problem of Social Justice -- Alternative Theories of Social Justice -- Concluding Comments: Alternative Theoretical Perspectives on "the Right to Health Care" -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2. Historical Evolvement of the U.S. Health Care System -- Historical Evolvement of the Basic Components of the Health Care System: Hospitals, Doctors, Nurses, and Health Insurance -- The Historical Evolvement of the Federal Government in Health Care -- Concluding Comments: Prospects for Achieving Health Care Reform -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3. The Contemporary Organization of Health Care: Health Care Finance -- Health Care Expenditures -- An Overview of Health Care System Finance-Employment-Based Health Insurance -- An Overview of Health Care System Finance-Public Financing of Health Care -- Concluding Comments: The Large Presence of Public Dollars in the Financing of Health Care -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4. The Contemporary Organization of Health Care: Health Care Services and Utilization -- The Mixed Public/Private Structure of the U.S. Health Care System -- The Resources of the U.S. System: Facilities, Technology, and Human Resources -- The Health Care System Safety Net -- Concluding Comments: The Paradoxical Underachievement of the U.S. Health Care System -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5. Long-Term Care of the Aged and Disabled -- The Long-Term Care Services System -- The Sustainability of Resources for Long-Term Care: Caregiving Labor and Public/Private Financing -- Directions for Long-Term Financing Policy -- Concluding Comments: A Social Justice Perspective on the Financing of Long-Term Care -- Notes -- References.

Chapter 6. Disparities in Health and Health Care -- Conceptualizing Disparities in Health and Health Care -- Measuring Disparities in Health and Health Care -- Social Characteristics Associated With Disparities in Health and Health Care -- Disparities in Health and Burden of Disease: General Findings -- Concluding Comments: The Deep Roots of Disparities in Health Care -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7. Social Epidemiology: Unraveling the Social Determinants of Disparities in Health -- The Discipline of Social Epidemiology -- The "Fundamental Social Causes" Hypothesis -- Income Inequality as a Social Determinant of Health -- Theoretical Debates Concerning Income Inequality Effects -- Concluding Comments: Social Epidemiology as a Tool of Social Policy -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 8. Prospects for Just Health Care System Reform: A Political and Principled Analysis -- The Social and Political Context of Health Care Reform -- The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) -- Concluding Comments: Toward a Progressive Vision of Universal Health Care -- Notes -- References -- Glossary -- Index.