Editorial

McCoy D .A new Director General for WHO – an opportunity for bold and inspirational leadership.Lancet. 2006;368:2179-2183

Grantham-McGregor S , Cuets S , Ritcher L , Strupp B .Child development in developing countries 1. Developmental potential in the first 5 years for children in developing countries.Lancet. 2007;369:60-70

Siegrist J , Marmot M Social Inequalities in Health: New Evidence and Policy Implications. Siegrist J Marmot M , ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2006:1-26.

Kunitz S Disease and Social Diversity: The European Impact on the Health of Non-Europeans. New York: Oxford University Press; 1994:

Trewin D , Madden R The Health and Welfare of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare; 2005:2005.

Marmot M .Harveian Oration: Health in an unequal world.Lancet. 2006;368:2981-2094

Hunter B Taming the Social Capital Hydra? Indigenous Poverty, Social Capital Theory and Measurement. Discussion Paper No. 261. Canberra: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, The Australian National University; 2004:

Brody EB .Cultural exclusion, character and illness.American Journal of Psychiatry. 1966;122:852-858

Sen AK .The possibility of social choice: Nobel Lecture, December 8.Economic Sciences. 1998;1998:178-215

Daniels N , Kennedy BP , Kawachi I .Why justice is good for our health: The social determinants of health inequalities.Daedalus. 1999;128:215-251

Kristenson M Social Inequalities in Health: New Evidence and Policy Implications. Siegrist J Marmot M , ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2006:127-151.

Steptoe A Social Inequalities in Health: New Evidence and Policy Implications. Siegrist J Marmot M , ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2006:101-126.

Schore AN Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self: The Neurobiology of Emotional Development. Hillsdale: Erlbaum; 1994:

Walker SP , Wachs TD , Gardener JM , Lozoff B , Wasserman GA , Pollitt E , et al.Child development in developing countries 2. Child development: risk factors for adverse outcomes in developing countries.Lancet. 2007;369:145-157

Daly AE , Smith D .Indicators of risk to the wellbeing of Australian Indigenous children.Australian Review of Public Affairs. 2005;6:39-57

Bosma H Social Inequalities in Health: New Evidence and Policy Implications. Siegrist J Marmot M , ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2006:153-166.

Wallerstein N .. ; 2006; 2006. .

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner: Social Justice Report 2005. Sydney: Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission; 2005:

Values and Ethics: Guidelines for Ethical Conduct in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Research. Canberra: National Health and Medical Research Council; 2003:

Hunter E Back to Redfern: Autonomy and the ‘Middle E’ in Relation to Aboriginal Health. Discussion Paper Number 18. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies; 2006:

Engle PE , et al.Child development in developing countries 3: Strategies to avoid the loss of developmental potential in more than 200 million children in the developing world.Lancet. 2007;369:229-242

Pearce J , Banett R , McDermott B , Gillbert AL , et al.Did geographical inequalities in suicide among men aged 15–44 in New Zealand increase during the period 1980–2001?.Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. 2007;41:359-365

Marsella AJ .Culture and conflict: Understanding, negotiating, and reconciling conflicting constructions of reality.International Journal of Intercultural Relations. 2005;29:651-673