The death gap : how inequality kills / David A. Ansell, MD.
Publisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2017Description: xviii, 235 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780226428154 (cloth : alk. paper)
- Social medicine -- United States
- Equality -- Health aspects -- United States
- Poverty -- Health aspects -- United States
- Racism -- Health aspects -- United States
- Health -- Social aspects -- United States
- Health and race -- United States
- Discrimination in medical care -- United States
- Medical policy -- United States
- 362.10973 23
- RA418.3.U6 A57 2017
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-222) and index.
Preface: one street, two worlds -- American roulette. American roulette -- Structural violence and the death gap -- Location, location, location -- Perception is reality -- The three Bs: beliefs, behavior, biology -- Trapped by inequity. Fire and rain: life and death in natural disasters -- Mass incarceration, premature death, and community health -- Immigration status and health inequality -- Health care inequality. The US health care system: separate and unequal -- The poison pill: the Affordable Care Act -- The cure. Community efficacy and the death gap. -- Community activism against structural violence -- Observe, judge, act.