The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World by Michael Marmot

The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World

Michael Marmot

400 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction health sociology informative slow-paced

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In this groundbreaking book, Michael Marmot, president of the World Medical Association, reveals social injustice to be the greatest threat to global healthIn Baltimore's inner-city neighborhood of Upton/Druid Heights, a man's life expectancy is s...

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informative 90%
inspiring 36%
reflective 27%
challenging 18%
hopeful 18%

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fast 10%

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