Status Syndrome: How Your Place on the Social Gradient Directly Affects Your Health

Marmot, Michael

ISBN 10: 1408872684 / ISBN 13: 9781408872680

Editore: Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2015

Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Codice articolo 00078495074

Riassunto:

Social circumstances are key factors in dictating life expectancy and propensity to illness. The full extent to which we are at the mercy of social hierarchy is revealed in Marmot's fascinating and troubling insight.

Informazioni sull?autore: Sir Michael Marmot is Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at UCL, a leading intellectual both in the UK and globally. He will take up the Lown visiting professorship at Harvard in 2015. He chaired the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health (2005-8), his recommendations have been adopted by the World Health Assembly and taken up by many countries and the British Government appointed him to conduct a review of social determinants and health inequalities. The Marmot Review and its recommendations are now being implemented in three-quarters of local authorities in England. He previously published Status Syndrome in 2004.

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Titolo: Status Syndrome: How Your Place on the ...
Casa editrice: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Data di pubblicazione: 2015
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: Very Good