Chapter 6 of textbook "Public Health : Local and Global Perspectives" (2nd Edition). "Public Health : Local and Global Perspectives" provides students with a comprehensive overview of Australian and international public health issues and contexts. It introduces the discipline of public health and aims to deepen students’ understanding of the determinants of health, historical and theoretical perspectives of public health, current health research and evidence-based practice. The learning objectives of Chapter 6 are: 1. describe the relative contribution of individual behaviours, the healthcare sector and structural factors to the generation of health 2. describe the differences between health inequalities and health inequities 3. understand the concept of social justice 4. explain the social gradient in health 5. expound key social determinants of health from "The Solid Facts".