The Health Of Nations: Why Inequality is Harmful to Your Health

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Praised by the Lancet as "a lucid account that deserves to be read by everybody interested in the politics of health," "The Health of Nations" provides powerful evidence that growing inequality is undermining health, welfare, and community life. The book's two prize-winning authors also make an urgent argument for social justice as a necessary vehicle for the betterment of society. "The Health of Nations" is the synthesis of years of groundbreaking research on the connections between social structures and health and welfare, and one which Nobel prize-winner Amartya Sen says "has much to offer in reshaping the agenda of the debate on health care." It dramatically demonstrates that growing inequalities threaten the very freedoms that economic development is thought to create.

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"[An] extremely important and timely study." - AMARTYA SEN, WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS "A timely summation of recent economic research that shows how extreme prosperity always comes at the expense of others' poverty-- and perhaps of one's own well-being" - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY"

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Ichiro Kawachi is director of the Harvard Centre for Society and Health, and professor of social epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. Bruce P. Kennedy is a social epidemiologist, formerly at the Harvard School of Public Health.