Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 400
Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub
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.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 400
Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub
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 ...
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 781
Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub
The book examines how disparities in treatment may arise in health care systems and looks at aspects of the clinical encounter that may contribute to such disparities.
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 583
Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub
Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States.
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Total Pages: 490
Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub
Health Sciences & Professions
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 256
Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub
Updated with a new foreword by Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot and an afterword by Ansell, The Death Gap speaks to the urgency to face this national health crisis head-on.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 92
Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub
To people at the bottom of the heap, the world seems hostile and the stress is harmful. If you are not in control, you're at risk. This is a penetrating analysis of patterns of health and disease that has implications for social policy.
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 304
Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub
Systematically compiling the substantial existing knowledge to address this inequity is the central goal of this volume.
Publisher: World Health Organization
Total Pages: 257
Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub
Social justice is a matter of life and death. It affects the way people live, their consequent chance of illness, and their risk of premature death.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Total Pages: 377
Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub
An essential text for courses in public health, health policy, and sociology, this compelling book is a vital teaching tool and a comprehensive reference for social science and medical professionals.
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 210
Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub
The Roundtable's first workshop, Challenges and Successes in Reducing Health Disparities, was held in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 31, 2007, and examined (1) the importance of differences in life expectancy within the United States, (2) the ...
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Total Pages: 241
Type:PDF / eBOOK / ePub
A thought-provoking and evocative account that considers both the policies we think of as "health policyand those that we don't, The Political Determinants of Health provides a novel, multidisciplinary framework for addressing the systemic ...
