Is Inequality Bad for Our Health?

Name: Is Inequality Bad for Our Health?
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ISBN: 9780807004470

ISBN-10: 0807004472

ISBN-13: 9780807004470

Edition: 2000

Authors: Norman Daniels, Bruce Kennedy, Ichiro Kawachi, Joshua Cohen, Joel Rogers

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In this election year, health care again proves to be one of our nation's most urgent issues. Daniels, Kennedy, and Kawachi shift the focus of the debate, forcing us to take a closer look at how our health is affected by social injustice and inequality. Arguing that it isn't enough to increase access to doctors, they call for improving social conditions-such as poverty, lack of education and affordable housing, and harmful work environments-that damage our health. By urging us to work toward equality of opportunity for all, the authors situate health care reform among the larger social problems we must face. The authors' argument for reform in early childhood development, nutrition, work…

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List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 9/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 112
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English

Foreword
Editors' Preface
Justice Is Good for Our Health	p. 3
Do Inequalities Matter?	p. 37
Pockets of Poverty	p. 42
Equal Opportunity	p. 48
Policy Options	p. 53
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