The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World Michael Marmot Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 0701

Κωδικός: 1176921

Περιγραφή για The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World Michael Marmot Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 0701

\'Punchily written … He leaves the reader with a sense of the gross injustice of a world where health outcomes are so unevenly distributed\' Times Literary Supplement\'Splendid and necessary\' Henry Marsh, author of Do No Harm, New StatesmanThere 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. In all countries, people at relative social disadvantage suffer health disadvantage, dramatically so. Within countries, the higher the social status of individuals the better is their health. These health inequalities defy usual explanations. Conventional approaches to improving health have emphasised access to technical solutions – improved medical care, sanitation, and control of disease vectors; or behaviours – smoking, drinking – obesity, linked to diabetes, heart disease and cancer. These approaches only go so far. Creating the conditions for people to lead flourishing lives, and thus empowering individuals and communities, is key to reduction of health inequalities. In addition to the scale of material success, your position in the social hierarchy also directly affects your health, the higher you are on the social scale, the longer you will live and the better your health will be. As people change rank, so their health risk changes. 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. Σελίδες: 400, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0701, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm

Αγορά The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World Michael Marmot Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 0701

Επισκέψου το κατάστημα Book Odyssey για να δεις περισσότερες λεπτομέρειες και φωτογραφίες για το The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World Michael Marmot Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 0701. Για αγορά του The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World Michael Marmot Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 0701 πρέπει να επισκεφτείς το κατάστημα Book Odyssey.