The Death Gap : How Inequality Kills /

We hear plenty about the widening income gap between the rich and the poor in America and about the expanding distance separating the haves and the have-nots. But when detailing the many things that the poor have not, we often overlook the most critical-their health. The poor die sooner. Blacks die...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ansell, MD, David A. (Autor, Contribuidor)
Otros Autores: Lightfoot, Lori E. (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2021]
Temas:
Discrimination in medical care > United States.
Discrimination in medical care-United States.
Equality > Health aspects > United States.
Equality-Health aspects-United States.
Health and race > United States.
Health and race-United States.
Health > Social aspects > United States.
Health-Social aspects-United States.
Medical policy > United States.
Medical policy-United States.
Poverty > Health aspects > United States.
Poverty-Health aspects-United States.
Racism > Health aspects > United States.
Racism-Health aspects-United States.
Social medicine > United States.
Social medicine-United States.
MEDICAL / General.
inequality, community health equity, healthcare, medicine, income gap, wealth disparity, rich and poor, american culture, united states of america, usa, race, chicago, urban spaces, cities, death, epidemic, illness, sickness, treatment, life expectancy, discrimination, social, cultural, racism, mortality, covid-19, pandemic, crisis, poverty, policy.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Foreword
  • Preface: One Street, Two Worlds
  • Part 1: American Roulette
  • Chapter 1: American Roulette
  • Chapter 2: Structural Violence and the Death Gap
  • Chapter 3: Location, Location, Location
  • Chapter 4: Perception Is Reality
  • Chapter 5: The Three Bs: Beliefs, Behavior, Biology
  • Part 2: Trapped by Inequity
  • Chapter 6: Fire and Rain: Life and Death in Natural Disasters
  • Chapter 7: Mass Incarceration, Premature Death, and Community Health
  • Chapter 8: Immigration Status and Health Inequality: The Case of Transplant
  • Part 3: Health Care Inequality
  • Chapter 9: The US Health Care System: Separate and Unequal
  • Chapter 10: The Poison Pill: Health Insurance in America
  • Part 4: The Cure
  • Chapter 11: Community Efficacy and the Death Gap
  • Chapter 12: Community Activism against Structural Violence
  • Chapter 13: Observe, Judge, Act
  • Afterword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index

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