Introduction ~ Linda Bauld; Part one: Key areas of social policy: Personal social services ~ Caroline Glendinning and Robin Means; Health ~ Ruth McDonald; Education ~ Alan Dyson; Housing ~ Mark Stephens and Deborah Quilgars; Social security ~ Paul Dornan; Part two: Health and well-being: Well-being and consumerism ~ Janet Newman and Elizabeth Vidler; Being well and well-being: the value of community and professional concepts in understanding positive health ~ Elaine Cameron, Jonathan Mathers and Jayne Parry; Theorising well-being: defining, measuring and understanding ~ Tania Burchardt; The relationship between health and subjective well-being ~ Robert Cummins; Getting to well-being through local government and community processes? The Waitakere Community Wellbeing Strategy in Third Way New Zealand ~ David Craig; Part three: Ageing and employment: Extending working life: problems and prospects for social and public policy ~ Chris Phillipson; Age discrimination in history ~ John Macnicol; Neglected areas of training ~ Kerry Platman and Phillip Taylor; What's different about the UK approach to age and employment? ~ Patrick Grattan.