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The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World by Michael Marmot (Paperback, 2016)
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He points out, with patience and precision, that there is nothing inevitable about health inequalities. This important book is a rarity – an astute academic analysis that entertains as much as it informs Rt Hon Alan Johnson MP .
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'Splendid and necessary' - Henry Marsh, author of Do No Harm, New Statesman 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. 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.Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-139781408857977
eBay Product ID (ePID)222992454
Product Key Features
Number of Pages400 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameThe Health Gap: the Challenge of an Unequal World
Publication Year2016
SubjectMedicine
TypeTextbook
AuthorMichael Marmot
Subject AreaEconomic Sociology
FormatPaperback
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Item Height198 mm
Item Weight279 g
Item Width129 mm
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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorMichael Marmot
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- 27 Apr, 2017
I am already recomending it. It should be compulsoty reading for all in teh caring professions and all MPs.
This book shows that I would be possible to lower spending on health if we put in place the neccesary framework to ensure high quality education and tehother basic requirements for a healthy society.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 28 Oct, 2020
Great for public health students!
I am studying Public Health and Wellbeing at university so this book is of great interest to me. I will be using the Marmot Report a lot through my course so the book has given me a great overview. I’ve recommended it to my piers.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 25 Jan, 2018
A great read. Marmot certainly says it how it is!
What a fantastic book! Highly recommended to anyone, but especially those completing a degree in health and social care.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
