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Author: Ichiro Kawachi
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 156584582X
Category: Medical

The Health of Nations: Why Inequality Is Harmful to Your Health

A powerful demonstration of how global economic inequality is undermining our nation's health and our quality of life. Download The Health of Nations medical books for free.
Applying to the United States the kind of scrutiny that Nobel-prize winning economist Amartya Sen has devoted to developing countries, The Health of Nations demonstrates that growing inequality is undermining health, welfare, and community life in America. Harvard professors Ichiro Kawachi and Bruce P. Kennedy review the social costs of inequality, revealing that the United States and other wealthy countries with high levels of social inequality have lower general health than do more equitable societies, rich or poor. , The Health of Nations makes an urgent argument for social justice as the necessary vehicle for Get The Health of Nations our bestseller medical books.

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