The death gap : how inequality kills /
There is a thirty-five-year difference in life expectancy between the healthiest and wealthiest and the poorest and sickest American neighborhoods. If you are poor, where you live in America can dictate when you die. It doesn't need to be this way; such divisions are not inevitable. The author...
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Chicago :
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2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface. One street, two worlds
- Part 1. American roulette
- 1. American roulette
- 2. Structural violence and the death gap
- 3. Location, location, location
- 4. Perception is reality
- 5. The three Bs: beliefs, behavior, biology
- Part 2. Trapped by inequity
- 6. Fire and rain: life and death in natural disasters
- 7. Mass incarceration, premature death, and community health
- 8. Immigration status and health inequality: the case of transplant
- Part 3. Health care inequality
- 9. The US health care system: separate and unequal
- 10. The poison pill: health insurance in America
- Part 3. The cure
- 11. Community efficacy and the death gap
- 12. Community activism against structural violence
- 13. Observe, judge, act.