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The Health Gap

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

The Health Gap

By Michael Marmot

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About the book

'Splendid and necessary' - Henry Marsh, author of Do No Harm, New StatesmanThere 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...Show more

Society and Social Sciences
Society and culture: general
Sociology and anthropology

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9781408857977

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published year

2016

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1

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The Health Gap

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Paperback

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