The health gap : the challenge of an unequal world / Michael Marmot.
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- 9781408857977 (pbk.) :
- 362.1 23
- RA418
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306.461 CLA Class, inequalities and nursing practice / | 306.461 CUR Health and inequality : geographical perspectives. | 306.461 JON The social context of health and health work / | 306.461 MAR The health gap : | 306.461 NET The sociology of health and illness / | 306.461 NET The sociology of health and illness / | 306.461 SCR Health and social change : a critical theory / |
Originally published: 2015.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
There are dramatic differences in health between countries and within countries. But this is not a simple matter of rich and poor. A poor man in Glasgow is rich compared to the average Indian, but the Glaswegian's life expectancy is 8 years shorter. The Indian is dying of infectious disease linked to his poverty; the Glaswegian of violent death, suicide, heart disease linked to a rich country's version of disadvantage. What makes these health inequalities unjust is that evidence from round the world shows we know what to do to make them smaller. This new evidence is compelling. It has the potential to change radically the way we think about health, and indeed society.
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