Unequal Health - 9781447305149

Unequal HealthThe Scandal of Our Times\nAuthor(s): Danny Dorling\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Policy Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Policy Press\nISBN-13: 9781447305149, 978-1447305149\nSynopsis\nHealth inequalities are the most important inequalities of all. In the US and the UK these inequalities have now reached an extent not seen for over a century. Most people's health is much better now than then, but the gaps in life expectancy between regions, between cities, and between neighbourhoods within cities now surpass the worst measures over the last hundred years. In almost all other affluent countries, inequalities in health are lower and people live longer.\nIn his new book, academic and writer Danny Dorling describes the current extent of inequalities in health as the scandal of our times. He provides nine new chapters and updates a wide selection of his highly influential writings on health, including international-peer reviewed studies, annotated lectures, newspaper articles.