Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- From the Material to the Social in Population Health -- Pathways from institutions and culture to Health -- Bringing culture Back in -- Institutions, Public Policy Making, and Health -- Social Processes and causal Structures -- Conclusion -- 1 Population Health and the Dynamics of Collective Development -- Introduction -- Population Health: Overview and Current Evidence -- The Phenomenon of Socioeconomic Gradients in Health -- SES Gradients Suggest the Fundamental Influence of Societal Determinants of Health -- Reconnecting Populations to the Individuals That Comprise Them -- How Do We Know What We Know about Population Health, and What Are We Missing? -- The Value of comparative Perspectives -- When Should We Care about and Measure Societal Determinants and Health Outcomes? Opening Up Time Horizons -- Processes Unfolding over Time -- Population Health and the Dynamics of Collective Development: A Comparative, Multiple-Time Horizon Perspective on Canada versus the United States -- Health Outcomes -- Analysis -- Why Relative Income and Public Provision Matter for Population Health: A Look at Potential Mechanisms Linking Social Inequality to Population Health -- Big, Slow-Moving Processes -- Understanding the evolution of Population Health over time -- The Male-Female Life Expectancy Gap -- Reconnecting the Mechanisms: Drilling Down from Macro to Micro in Canada versus United States -- Good Health in Bad Times: Russia versus Czech Republic -- Conclusion -- 2 Social Interactions in Human Development: Pathways to Health and Capabilities -- The Social Gradient in Health -- Society, Biology, and Human Development: Escaping Determinism -- Conceptual Model of Social and Developmental Mediators of the Social Gradient in Developmental Health.

Social and Developmental Mediators of the Social Gradient in Health -- A Sense of Control: Social Hierarchies and the Stress Response System -- A Sense of Connection: Social Relationships and the Social Reward System -- The Emergence of Consciousness: Identity and Meaning -- An Integrated System: Collective and Individual Capabilities -- 3 Health, Social Relations, and Public Policy -- A Basic Model Linking Population Health to Economic and Social Relations -- The Impact of Economic Relations -- Social Relations as Social Resources -- The Impact of Social Connectedness -- Social Capital -- Social Networks -- Collective Imaginaries -- Social Hierarchy -- The Capabilities of Communities -- Public Policy Making as Social Resource Creation -- Social Connectedness -- Social Hierarchy -- Communal Capabilities -- Conclusion -- 4 Population Health and Development: An Institutional-Cultural Approach to Capability Expansion -- Arguments about Population Health and Development -- Reconceptualizing Population Health Variations in Poor Countries -- Institutions, Culture, and Improved Health Outcomes in Poor Countries -- Lessons for Population Health and Development Theory -- 5 Responding to AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa: Culture, Institutions, and Health -- Outlining the Issues -- Variations in Political Response: Problems and Paradoxes -- A Political Paradox: Botswana versus Uganda -- Leadership -- Education and Information -- Money, Government Competence, Public Health Infrastructure -- Public Health Campaigns of Various Stripes: Condoms versus Abstinence -- NGOs and Outside Funding -- Culture, Legitimacy, and the Problem of "Cultural Match" -- Solidarities and Silences -- The Heart of the Matter -- Conclusion -- 6 Responses to Racism, Health, and Social Inclusion as a Dimension of Successful Societies -- Objectives and Contributions -- Destigmatization Strategies.

Antiracism among Black Working-Class Men -- The African American Elite -- Black Marketing Executives -- North African Immigrants in France -- The Impact of Destigmatization Strategies on Mental Health -- The Future Agenda -- 7 Collective Imaginaries and Population Health: How Health Data Can Highlight Cultural History -- Collective Imaginary as Articulation of Reason and Myth -- The Sociocultural/Health Framework Encapsulated: Identity Deprivation and Physical Disorders among Qubec Indians -- Qubec: One Past, Two Narratives (in Search of a Cultural Trend) -- The Survival Thesis -- The Modernist Thesis -- The Missing Narrative -- The 1850-1960 French Canadian Imaginary: Ineffective Myths, Fragmentary Thought -- The Health Record -- Conclusion -- A Complex, Unpredictable Journey: From Collective Imaginaries to Behaviors - and Backward -- The Case for a New Paradigm -- 8 Making Sense of Contagion: Citizenship Regimes and Public Health in Victorian England -- Analytic Tools for Thinking about Policy Variation -- In Public Health, "Politics Matters" -- Politics and Citizenship Regimes -- Mid-Nineteenth-Century England: Only Partial Implementation of the Sanitary Idea -- Sanitarians and Public Health -- Fitting the "Sanitary Idea" into the Age of Reform's Citizenship Regime -- The Reconfigured Citizenship Regime after 1870: Progress for the Sanitary Idea -- Opposition to Sanitarians -- The Politics of Water and Sewers in the 1870s -- Citizenship and Bodily Integrity - Opposition to Sanitarians -- Summary and Conclusions -- 9 The Multicultural Welfare State? -- Introduction -- Diversity and the Welfare State -- The Case for a Trade-Off -- The Case for a Heterogeneity/Redistribution Trade-Off -- The Case for a Recognition/Redistribution Trade-Off -- Testing the Trade-Offs -- Testing the Heterogeneity/Redistribution Trade-Off.

Testing the Recognition/Redistribution Trade-Off -- Rethinking the Underlying Mechanisms -- Conclusion -- 10 From State-Centrism to Neoliberalism: Macro-Historical Contexts of Population Health since World War II -- The Rise of the State-Centric Paradigm -- Cultural Transformations -- The Neoliberal Offensive -- The Global Contours of a Neoliberal Present -- Prospects for Population Health in a Neoliberal World -- Bibliography -- Index.