Twenty Years of Life
Why the Poor Die Earlier and How to Challenge Inequity
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2018
Island Press (Verlag)
978-1-61091-801-5 (ISBN)
Island Press (Verlag)
978-1-61091-801-5 (ISBN)
Follows a bold experiment to close the health gap in wealthy vs. poor communities.
An exposé of the true cause of America’s vast health disparities
In Twenty Years of Life, Suzanne Bohan exposes the ugly truth that health is largely determined by zip code. Life expectancies in wealthy versus poor neighborhoods can vary by as much as twenty years.
Bohan chronicles a bold experiment to challenge that inequity. The California Endowment, one of the nation’s largest health foundations, is upending the old-school, top-down charity model and investing $1 billion over ten years to help distressed communities advocate for their own interests.
With compassion and insight, Bohan shares stories of students and parents, former street shooters, urban farmers, and a Native American tribe who are tapping into their latent political power to make their neighborhoods healthier. Their stories will fundamentally change how we think about the root causes of disease and the prospects for healing.
An exposé of the true cause of America’s vast health disparities
In Twenty Years of Life, Suzanne Bohan exposes the ugly truth that health is largely determined by zip code. Life expectancies in wealthy versus poor neighborhoods can vary by as much as twenty years.
Bohan chronicles a bold experiment to challenge that inequity. The California Endowment, one of the nation’s largest health foundations, is upending the old-school, top-down charity model and investing $1 billion over ten years to help distressed communities advocate for their own interests.
With compassion and insight, Bohan shares stories of students and parents, former street shooters, urban farmers, and a Native American tribe who are tapping into their latent political power to make their neighborhoods healthier. Their stories will fundamentally change how we think about the root causes of disease and the prospects for healing.
Suzanne Bohan spent twelve years as a reporter for the Bay Area New Group, which includes the San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, and Oakland Tribune. She won a prestigious White House Correspondents' Association award in 2010 for her reporting on health disparities. Bohan is co-author of 50 Simple Ways to Live a Longer Life: Everyday Techniques From the Forefront of Science (Sourcebooks, 2005).
| Erscheinungsdatum | 27.04.2018 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Washington |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-61091-801-0 / 1610918010 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-61091-801-5 / 9781610918015 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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