Status Syndrome: How Your Social Standing Directly Affects Your Health and Life Expectancy - Brossura

M.G. Marmot

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0747570493 ISBN 13: 9780747570493

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2004

Riassunto

The rich countries of the world have remarkably good health. Malaria is long gone from Europe and the USA. Parasitic diseases do not wreak havoc with our lives. Infant mortality is below one in a hundred. Yet even so, where we stand in the social hierarchy is intimately related to our chances of getting ill and to how long we live. And the differences between top and bottom are getting bigger. This eye-opening book is based on more than twenty-five years of research that began with the Whitehall Studies in the 1980s. These showed that even among white-collar employees with steady jobs there is a clear social gradient in health. Michael Marmot's subsequent work took him round the world as he puzzled out the relationship between health and social circumstances. Everywhere from the US to Russia, from the Mediterranean to Australia, from Southern India to Japan, similar patterns emerged, showing that control over our lives and opportunities for full social participation are key factors for good health.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Sir Michael Marmot is Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health and Director of the International Centre for Health and Society, University, College, London, and Adjunct Professor of Health and Social Behavior at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0747570493
• ISBN 13: 9780747570493
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320