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Marmot, M. G
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Poor -- Medical care
Equality -- Health aspects
Medical care -- Regional disparities
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Marmot, M. G
Poor -- Medical care
Equality -- Health aspects
Medical care -- Regional disparities
MARC Display
Health
gap
: the
challenge
of an
unequal
world
/ Michael Marmot.
by
Marmot, M. G
Bloomsbury c2015.
Call #:
306.461 M352h
Subjects
Poor -- Medical care
Equality --
Health
aspects
Medical care -- Regional disparities
ISBN:
9781632860781 (hc)
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Description:
387 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
In Baltimore's inner-city neighborhood of Upton/Druid Heights, a man's life expectancy is sixty-three; not far away, in the Greater Roland Park/Poplar neighborhood, life expectancy is eighty-three. The same twenty-year avoidable disparity exists in the Calton and Lenzie neighborhoods of Glasgow, and in other cities around the
world
. In Sierra Leone, one in 21 fifteen-year-old women will die in her fertile years of a maternal-related cause; in Italy, the figure is one in 17,100; but in the United States, which spends more on healthcare than any other country in the
world
, it is one in 1,800. Why? Dramatic differences in
health
are not a simple matter of rich and poor; poverty alone doesn't drive ill
health
, but inequality does. Indeed, suicide, heart disease, lung disease, obesity, and diabetes, for example, are all linked to social disadvantage. In every country, people at relative social disadvantage suffer
health
disadvantage and shorter lives. Within countries, the higher the social status of individuals, the better their
health
. These
health
inequalities defy the usual explanations. Conventional approaches to improving
health
have emphasized access to technical solutions and changes in the behavior of individuals, but these methods only go so far. What really makes a difference is creating the conditions for people to have control over their lives, to have the power to live as they want. Empowerment is the key to reducing
health
inequality and thereby improving the
health
of everyone. Marmot emphasizes that the rate of illness of a society as a whole determines how well it functions; the greater the
health
inequity, the greater the dysfunction. Marmot underscores that we have the tools and resources materially to improve levels of
health
for individuals and societies around the
world
, and that to not do so would be a form of injustice. Citing powerful examples and startling statistics ("young men in the U.S. have less chance of surviving to sixty than young men in forty-nine other countries"), The
Health
Gap
presents compelling evidence for a radical change in the way we think about
health
and indeed society, and inspires us to address the societal imbalances in power, money, and resources that work against
health
equity. --[p. 2] of cover
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