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The Health Gap - The Challenge of an Unequal World (Paperback)
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The Health Gap - The Challenge of an Unequal World (Paperback)
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'Punchily written ... He leaves the reader with a sense of the
gross injustice of a world where health outcomes are so unevenly
distributed' Times Literary Supplement '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.
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