Is Inequality Bad For Our Health?

ISBN-10: 0807004472
ISBN-13: 9780807004470
Category: Political Science
Pages: 124
Language: English
Published: 2001-09-01
Publisher: Beacon Press
Author: Norman Daniels

Description

In this election year, health care again proves to be one of our nation's most urgent issues. Daniels, Kennedy, and Kawachi shift the focus of the debate, forcing us to take a closer look at how our health is affected by social injustice and inequality. Arguing that it isn't enough to increase access to doctors, they call for improving social conditions-such as poverty, lack of education and affordable housing, and harmful work environments-that damage our health. By urging us to work toward equality of opportunity for all, the authors situate health care reform among the larger social problems we must face. The authors' argument for reform in early childhood development, nutrition, work environment, and distribution of income is certain to spark debate. The editor of The New England Journal of Medicine and World Health Organization officials respond. The New Democracy Forum is a series of short paperback originals exploring creative solutions to our most urgent national concerns. "A civic treasure. . . . A truly good idea, carried out with intelligence and panache." --Robert Pinsky

Get the book

Similar books

Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity
By Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Health and Medicine Division, Engineering
Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States.
The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
By Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett
... 270 Steele, Claude, and Joshua Aronson 113 Steinbeck, John 73 stereotypes and stereotype threats 113–14, 164 stigma 168–169 see also shame and humiliation stress: chronic and acute 85–7, 96 in early life 39, 63,77, 85, 100, 126, ...
New Horizons in Health: An Integrative Approach
By Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council, Board on Behavioral
It outlines a set of research priorities for consideration by the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), with particular attention to research that can support and complement the work of the National Institutes of Health ...
The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World
By Michael Marmot
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.
Income Inequality: The Gap Between Rich and Poor
By OECD, Brian Keeley
This book explores income inequality across five main headings. It starts by explaining some key terms in the inequality debate. It then examines recent trends and explains why income inequality varies between countries.
U.S. Health in International Perspective: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health
By Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Institute of Medicine, National Research Council
Food marketing to children and youth: Threat or opportunity? J.M. McGinnis, J. Appleton Gootman, and V.I. Kraak (Eds.). Committee on Food Marketing and the Diets of Children and Youth. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
Unequal Treatment:: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care (with CD)
By Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Committee on Understanding and Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care
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.
Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care
By Dayna Bowen Matthew
In this book, she unites medical, neuroscience, psychology, and sociology research on implicit bias and health disparities with her own expertise in civil rights and constitutional law.
The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die
By Keith Payne
In The Broken Ladder psychologist Keith Payne examines how inequality divides us not just economically, but has profound consequences for how we think, how our cardiovascular systems respond to stress, how our immune systems function, and ...
Social Epidemiology
By Ichirō Kawachi, Lisa F. Berkman, M. Maria Glymour
"Eleven fully updated chapters include entries on the links between health and discrimination, income inequality, social networks and emotion, while four all-new chapters examine the role of policies in shaping health, including how to ...