The Death Gap

How Inequality Kills

MD Ansell David A. (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

255 Seiten

2021 | First Edition, Enlarged
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-79671-0 (ISBN)

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David A. Ansell, MD, is the senior vice president and associate provost for community health equity as well as the Michael E. Kelly Professor of Medicine at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. He is the author of County: Life, Death, and Politics at Chicago’s Public Hospital.

Foreword by Chicago Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot
Preface: One Street, Two Worlds

Part 1: American Roulette

Chapter 1: American Roulette
Chapter 2: Structural Violence and the Death Gap
Chapter 3: Location, Location, Location
Chapter 4: Perception Is Reality
Chapter 5: The Three Bs: Beliefs, Behavior, Biology

Part 2: Trapped by Inequity

Chapter 6: Fire and Rain: Life and Death in Natural Disasters
Chapter 7: Mass Incarceration, Premature Death, and Community Health
Chapter 8: Immigration Status and Health Inequality: The Case of Transplant

Part 3: Health Care Inequality

Chapter 9: The US Health Care System: Separate and Unequal
Chapter 10: The Poison Pill: Health Insurance in America

Part 4: The Cure

Chapter 11: Community Efficacy and the Death Gap
Chapter 12: Community Activism against Structural Violence
Chapter 13: Observe, Judge, Act

Afterword
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.06.2021
Nachwort	MD Ansell David A.
Vorwort	Lori E. Lightfoot
Zusatzinfo	23 halftones
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	399 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-226-79671-X / 022679671X
ISBN-13	978-0-226-79671-0 / 9780226796710
Zustand	Neuware