The Health Gap by Michael Marmot

The Health Gap by Michael Marmot

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'Splendid and necessary' - Henry Marsh, author of Do No Harm, New Statesman

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The Health Gap by Michael Marmot

'Splendid and necessary' - Henry Marsh, author of Do No Harm, New Statesman
Splendid and necessary -- Henry Marsh, author of 'Do No Harm' * New Statesman *
Michael Marmot was one of the most impressive people I worked with in my time as Health SecretaryHe points out, with patience and precision, that there is nothing inevitable about health inequalities. This important book is a rarity – an astute academic analysis that entertains as much as it informs * Rt Hon Alan Johnson MP *
Michael Marmot reveals that the average person would have eight extra years of healthy life if they had the same opportunities as the richest in our society … It’s time to stop seeing health as a matter of lifestyle choice and start campaigning for justice – for all our sakes * Observer *
Punchily written … He leaves the reader with a sense of the gross injustice of a world where health outcomes are so unevenly distributed -- Bee Wilson * Times Literary Supplement *
The animating idea behind Marmot’s life work is that social injustice is bad for our health. His research over the years has generated a catalogue of shocking headline findings, which are collected in this book to devastating effect … But Marmot is no doom-monger. Quite the opposite … this is a fundamentally optimistic book * Independent *
A vitally important book * Literary Journal *
Dr. Marmot weaves a masterful treatise on world financial and trade policy * New York Journal of Books *
I love books with a quietly revolutionary flavour. Michael Marmot’s The Health Gap is welcome as a stealth take-down of the UK’s passion for austerity ... Give it to any finance ministers you may know (or right-wing relatives) * New Scientist *

Born in England and educated in Australia, Sir Michael Marmot is Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at UCL. He will take up the Lown visiting professorship at Harvard in 2015 and Presidency of the World Medical Association. He chaired the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health (2005-8), his recommendations have been adopted by the World Health Assembly and taken up by many countries and the British Government appointed him to conduct a review of social determinants and health inequalities. The Marmot Review and its recommendations are now being implemented in three-quarters of local authorities in England. He lives in North London.

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ISBN 13 9781408857977
ISBN 10 1408857979
Titel The Health Gap
Autor Michael Marmot
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Erscheinungsjahr 2016-05-05
Seitenanzahl 400
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