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Synopsis Health Disparities in the United States: Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and the Social Determinants of Health

The health care system in the United States has been called the best in the world. Yet wide disparities persist between social groups, and many Americans suffer from poorer health than people in other developed countries. In this revised edition of Health Disparities in the United States, Donald A. Barr provides extensive new data about the ways low socioeconomic status, race, and ethnicity interact to create and perpetuate these health disparities. Examining the significance of this gulf for the medical community and society at large, Barr offers potential policy- and physician-based solutions for reducing health inequity in the long term.This thoroughly updated edition focuses on a new challenge the United States last experienced more than half a century ago: successive years of declining life expectancy. Barr addresses the causes of this decline, including what are commonly referred to as "deaths of despair"--from opiate overdose or suicide. Exploring the growing role geography

Detail Health Disparities in the United States: Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and the Social Determinants of Health

Author : Donald A. Barr

Pages : 376 pages

Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press

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ISBN-10 : 1421432587

ISBN-13 : 9781421432588