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'Splendid and necessary' - Henry Marsh, author of Do No Harm, New Statesman There are dramatic differences in health between countries and within countries. But this is not a simple matter of rich and poor. A poor man in Glasgow is rich compared to the average Indian, but the Glaswegian's life expectancy is 8 years shorter. The Indian is dying of infectious disease linked to his poverty; the Glaswegian of violent death, suicide, heart disease linked to a rich country's version of disadvantage. In all countries, people at relative social disadvantage suffer health disadvantage, dramatically so. Within countries, the higher the social status of individuals the better is their health. These health inequalities defy usual explanations. Conventional approaches to improving health have emphasised access to technical solutions - improved medical care, sanitation, and control of disease vectors; or behaviours - smoking, drinking - obesity, linked to diabetes, heart disease and cancer. These approaches only go so far. Creating the conditions for people to lead flourishing lives, and thus empowering individuals and communities, is key to reduction of health inequalities. In addition to the scale of material success, your position in the social hierarchy also directly affects your health, the higher you are on the social scale, the longer you will live and the better your health will be. As people change rank, so their health risk changes. What makes these health inequalities unjust is that evidence from round the world shows we know what to do to make them smaller. This new evidence is compelling. It has the potential to change radically the way we think about health, and indeed society.

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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 Secretary. He 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 *
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  • PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
  • Publication date2015
  • ISBN 10 1408858002
  • ISBN 13 9781408858004
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