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Category : Life expectancy
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Life Expectancy in Illinois
Author: Life Expectancy in Illinois, 1979-81
Author: The Public Health Index
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Category : Health status indicators
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
U.S. Decennial Life Tables for 1979-81
Author: Differences in Mortality Among City and Rural Populations of Non-metropolitan Illinois Counties
Author: Demographic Analysis
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Category : Demographic surveys
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Contains population characteristics, life expectancy, sexes and race of Illinois and the United States.
Vital Statistics, Illinois
Author: Illinois. Department of Public Health. Bureau of StatisticsPublisher:
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Vol. for 1958 accompanied by report entitled "Vital statistics supplement; Illinois resident data [counties and larger cities of Illinois] 1958."
Older Women in Illinois
Author: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Center for Advanced StudyPublisher:
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Category : Older women
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
The Death Gap
Author: David A. Ansell, MDPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022679671X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
We hear plenty about the widening income gap between the rich and the poor in America and about the expanding distance separating the haves and the have-nots. But when detailing the many things that the poor have not, we often overlook the most critical—their health. The poor die sooner. Blacks die sooner. And poor urban blacks die sooner than almost all other Americans. In nearly four decades as a doctor at hospitals serving some of the poorest communities in Chicago, David A. Ansell, MD, has witnessed firsthand the lives behind these devastating statistics. In The Death Gap, he gives a grim survey of these realities, drawn from observations and stories of his patients. While the contrasts and disparities among Chicago’s communities are particularly stark, the death gap is truly a nationwide epidemic—as Ansell shows, there is a thirty-five-year difference in life expectancy between the healthiest and wealthiest and the poorest and sickest American neighborhoods. If you are poor, where you live in America can dictate when you die. It doesn’t need to be this way; such divisions are not inevitable. Ansell calls out the social and cultural arguments that have been raised as ways of explaining or excusing these gaps, and he lays bare the structural violence—the racism, economic exploitation, and discrimination—that is really to blame. Inequality is a disease, Ansell argues, and we need to treat and eradicate it as we would any major illness. To do so, he outlines a vision that will provide the foundation for a healthier nation—for all. As the COVID-19 mortality rates in underserved communities proved, inequality is all around us, and often the distance between high and low life expectancy can be a matter of just a few blocks. Updated with a new foreword by Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot and an afterword by Ansell, The Death Gap speaks to the urgency to face this national health crisis head-on.
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