Health Disparities

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    • Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and the Social Determinants of Health
    • By: Donald A. Barr MD PhD
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • The health-care system in the United States has been called the best in the world. Yet wide disparities persist between social groups, and many Americans suffer from poorer health than people in other developed countries....

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    • How to Reduce Inflammation, Reverse Nerve Damage, and Reclaim Good Health
    • By: Dr. Richard Jacoby, Raquel Baldelomar
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • Sugar Crush exposes the shocking truth about how a diet high in sugar, processed carbohydrates, and wheat compresses and damages the peripheral nerves of the body....

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    • A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine
    • By: Damon Tweedy M.D.
    • Narrated by: Corey Allen
    • Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 979 ratings
    • When Damon Tweedy begins medical school, he envisions a bright future where his segregated, working-class background will become largely irrelevant. Instead, he finds that he has joined a new world where race is front and center.

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    • How Inequality Kills
    • By: David A. Ansell
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • The poor die sooner. Blacks die sooner. And poor urban Blacks die sooner than almost all other Americans....

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    • How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die
    • By: Keith Payne
    • Narrated by: James Foster
    • Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 676 ratings
    • Today's inequality is on a scale that none of us has seen in our lifetimes, yet this disparity between rich and poor has ramifications that extend far beyond mere financial means....

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    • Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
    • By: Caroline Criado Perez
    • Narrated by: Caroline Criado Perez
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,165 ratings
    • Celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez investigates the shocking root cause of gender inequality and research in Invisible Women, diving into women's lives at home, the workplace, the public square, the doctor's office, and more....

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    • How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids
    • By: Madeline Levine PhD
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 216 ratings
    • In recent years, numerous studies have shown that bright, charming teenagers from affluent, loving families are experiencing epidemic rates of mental illness....

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    • A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care
    • By: Dayna Bowen Matthew
    • Narrated by: Diana Blue
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Health disparities have remained stubbornly entrenched in the American health care system - and in Just Medicine Dayna Bowen Matthew finds that they principally arise from unconscious racial and ethnic biases held by physicians, institutional providers, and their patients....

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    • The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society
    • By: Dr. Arline T. Geronimus
    • Narrated by: Alma Cuervo
    • Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • Fusing science and social justice, renowned public health researcher Dr. Arline T. Geronimus offers an urgent and necessary book exploring the ways in which systemic injustice erodes the health of marginalized people....

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    • The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
    • By: David Brooks
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,715 ratings
    • With unequaled insight and brio, David Brooks, the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bobos in Paradise, has long explored and explained the way we live....

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    • Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich (The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series)
    • By: Thom Hartmann
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Series: The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series
    • Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • Popular progressive radio host and New York Times best-selling author Thom Hartmann reveals how and why attempts to establish affordable universal healthcare in the United States have been thwarted and what we can do to finally make it a reality....

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    • Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States
    • By: Anne Pollock
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A crucial component of anti-Black racism is the unconscionable disparity in health outcomes between Black and white Americans. Sickening examines this institutionalized inequality through dramatic, concrete events from the past two decades....

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    • The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America
    • By: Priya Fielding-Singh PhD
    • Narrated by: Priya Fielding-Singh PhD, York Whitaker
    • Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 11-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • Packed with lyrical storytelling and groundbreaking research, as well as Fielding-Singh’s personal experiences with food as a biracial, South Asian American woman, How the Other Half Eats illuminates exactly how inequality starts on the dinner plate....

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    • The Deadly Rise of Injury and Disaster - Who Profits and Who Pays the Price
    • By: Jessie Singer
    • Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
    • Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 02-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
    • A journalist recounts the surprising history of accidents and reveals how they’ve come to define all that’s wrong with America....

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    • How the Manic Wealthy Will Take Us to the Next Boom, Bubble, and Bust
    • By: Robert Frank
    • Narrated by: Paul Costanzo
    • Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-01-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • The rich are not only getting richer, they are becoming more dangerous. Starting in the early 1980s the top one percent broke away from the rest of us to become the most unstable force in the economy....

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    • How Yoga Helped Me and Why It Needs to Save Itself
    • By: Nadia Gilani
    • Narrated by: Avita Jay
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 05-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Writer and pioneering yoga teacher Nadia Gilani presents a powerful love letter to yoga and an urgent manifesto for its recovery....

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    • How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse
    • By: Gregg Easterbrook
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-03
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 177 ratings
    • Gregg Easterbrook makes the persuasive assertion that almost all aspects of Western life have vastly improved in the past century; and yet today, most men and women feel less happy...

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    • Discovering the Health, Wealth, and Power of Neighborhoods
    • By: Cormac Russell, John McKnight
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 09-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Find out how to uncover the hidden talents, assets, and abilities in your neighborhood and bring them together to create a vibrant and joyful community....

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    • How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Well-Being
    • By: Kate Pickett, Richard Wilkinson
    • Narrated by: Shridhar Solanki
    • Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • A groundbreaking investigation of how inequality infects our minds and gets under our skin....

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    • A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives
    • By: Gary Younge
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning Guardian journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during the course of a single day in the United States....

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