Why Care? How Status Affects Our Health and Longevity

Why Care? How Status Affects Our Health and Longevity

Author: Michael Marmot, PhD
Report Type: Hatch Publication
Language: English
Pub Date: 2006
Pages: 30
Pub Code:HL01-2006
Price: $9.95 (USD)

About the Report

Professor Sir Michael Marmot has been at the forefront of research into health inequalities for the past 20 years, as principal investigator of the Whitehall studies of British civil servants, investigating explanations for the striking inverse social gradient in morbidity and mortality. Why Care? discusses inequalities and disparities in heath care across social gradients.


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