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The Health Gap - The Challenge of an Unequal World (Paperback, Export/Airside)
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The Health Gap - The Challenge of an Unequal World (Paperback, Export/Airside)
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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.
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