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The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World

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Marmot, Michael. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing , 2015.

Material Type: Book

Call Number: REF NR 100 MAR 2015

Availability: 1 copy, 1 available

In Baltimore's inner-city neighborhood of Upton/Druid Heights, a man's life expectancy is sixty-three; not far away, in the Greater Roland Park/Poplar neighborhood, life expectancy is eighty-three. The same twenty-year avoidable disparity exists in the Calton and Lenzie neighborhoods of Glasgow, an…

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Author: Marmot, Michael

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Publication Date: 2015

Physical Description: 387pp

Subjects: Anti-Racism; Diversity; Social Injustice

Abstract: In Baltimore's inner-city neighborhood of Upton/Druid Heights, a man's life expectancy is sixty-three; not far away, in the Greater Roland Park/Poplar neighborhood, life expectancy is eighty-three. The same twenty-year avoidable disparity exists in the Calton and Lenzie neighborhoods of Glasgow, and in other cities around the world.; In Sierra Leone, one in 21 fifteen-year-old women will die in her fertile years of a maternal-related cause; in Italy, the figure is one in 17,100; but in the United States, which spends more on healthcare than any other country in the world, it is one in 1,800 (and now, with the new administration chipping away at Obamacare, the statistics stand to grow even more devastating). Why?; Dramatic differences in health are not a simple matter of rich and poor; poverty alone doesn't drive ill health, but inequality does. Indeed, suicide, heart disease, lung disease, obesity, and diabetes, for example, are all linked to social disadvantage. In every country, people at relative social disadvantage suffer health disadvantage and shorter lives. Within countries, the higher the social status of individuals, the better their health. These health inequalities defy the usual explanations. Conventional approaches to improving health have emphasized access to technical solutions and changes in the behavior of individuals, but these methods only go so far. What really makes a difference is creating the conditions for people to have control over their lives, to have the power to live as they want. Empowerment is the key to reducing health inequality and thereby improving the health of everyone. Marmot emphasizes that the rate of illness of a society as a whole determines how well it functions; the greater the health inequity, the greater the dysfunction.; Marmot underscores that we have the tools and resources materially to improve levels of health for individuals and societies around the world, and that to not do so would be a form of injustice. Citing powerful examples and startling statistics (?young men in the U.S. have less chance of surviving to sixty than young men in forty-nine other countries?), The Health Gap presents compelling evidence for a radical change in the way we think about health and indeed society, and inspires us to address the societal imbalances in power, money, and resources that work against health equity.

ISBN: 9781-63286-0781

Language: English

Material Type: Book

Call Number: REF NR 100 MAR 2015

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Me & White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, & Become a Good Ancestor

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Saad, Layla F. Napperville, Illinois: Source Books , 2020.

Material Type: Book

Call Number: REF NR 100 SAA 2019

Availability: 1 copy, 1 available

Based on the viral Instagram challenge that captivated participants worldwide, Me and White Supremacy takes readers on a 28-day journey, complete with journal prompts, to do the necessary and vital work that can ultimately lead to improving race relations.; Updated and expanded from the original wo…

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Author: Saad, Layla F

Place of Publication: Napperville, Illinois

Publisher: Source Books

Publication Date: 2020

Physical Description: 238pp

Subjects: Anti-Racism; Diversity

Abstract: Based on the viral Instagram challenge that captivated participants worldwide, Me and White Supremacy takes readers on a 28-day journey, complete with journal prompts, to do the necessary and vital work that can ultimately lead to improving race relations.; Updated and expanded from the original workbook (downloaded by nearly 100,000 people), this critical text helps you take the work deeper by adding more historical and cultural contexts, sharing moving stories and anecdotes, and including expanded definitions, examples, and further resources, giving you the language to understand racism, and to dismantle your own biases, whether you are using the book on your own, with a book club, or looking to start family activism in your own home.; This book will walk you step-by-step through the work of examining:; Examining your own white privilege; What allyship really means; Anti-blackness, racial stereotypes, and cultural appropriation; Changing the way that you view and respond to race; How to continue the work to create social change; Awareness leads to action, and action leads to change. For readers of White Fragility, White Rage, So You Want To Talk About Race, The New Jim Crow, How to Be an Anti-Racist and more who are ready to closely examine their own beliefs and biases and do the work it will take to create social change.

ISBN: 9781-7282-09807

Language: English

Material Type: Book

Call Number: REF NR 100 SAA 2019

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