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Unequal Health: The Scandal of Our Times


Unequal Health: The Scandal of Our Times

Hardback by Dorling, Danny (University of Oxford)

Unequal Health: The Scandal of Our Times

£85.99

ISBN:
9781447305149
Publication Date:
5 Mar 2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
Policy Press
Pages:
400 pages
Format:
Hardback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 17 - 19 May 2024
Unequal Health: The Scandal of Our Times

Description

Health inequalities are the most important inequalities of all. In the US and the UK these inequalities have now reached an extent not seen for over a century. Most people's health is much better now than then, but the gaps in life expectancy between regions, between cities, and between neighbourhoods within cities now surpass the worst measures over the last hundred years. In almost all other affluent countries, inequalities in health are lower and people live longer. In his new book, academic and writer Danny Dorling describes the current extent of inequalities in health as the scandal of our times. He provides nine new chapters and updates a wide selection of his highly influential writings on health, including international-peer reviewed studies, annotated lectures, newspaper articles, and interview transcripts, to create an accessible collection that is both contemporary and authoritative. As a whole the book shows conclusively that inequalities in health are the scandal of our times in the most unequal of rich nations and calls for immediate action to reduce these inequalities in the near future.

Contents

Foreword by S.V. Subramanian; The long view; The liberal record; Medicine and politics; Despair and joy; Global inequality; Thinking, drawing and counting; Changing demographics and ageing populations; Index

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