1. Introduction / Pam Bywaters and Eileen McLeod -- 2. Building a poverty perspective into health visiting practice / Clare Blackburn -- 3. Health care for older people: ageism and equality / Desmond O'Neill -- 4. Can social work deliver on health? / Paul Bywaters and Eileen McLeod -- 5. Caught in the caring trap: the health of children who care / Jo Aldridge and Saul Becker -- 6. Service users acting as agents of change / Clare Evans -- 7. Localities and inequalities: locality management in the inner-city / Rosie Weaver -- 8. Local authorities servicing health: rediscovering an historic role / Simon Sedgwick-Jell -- 9. Beyond 'us and them': trade unions and equality in community care for users and workers / Mick Carpenter -- 10. Reducing child health inequalities: insights and strategies for health workers / Nick Spencer -- 11. Researching women's health work: a study of the lifestyles of mothers on income support / Hilary Graham
12. Developing with Black and minority ethnic communities, health promotion strategies which address social inequalities / Jenny Douglas -- 13. The politics of AIDS treatment information activism: a partisan view / Simon Watney