Health Inequalities

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    • The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America
    • By: Gabriel Winant
    • Narrated by: BJ Harrison
    • Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Pittsburgh was once synonymous with steel. But today, most of its mills are gone. Like so many places across the United States, a city that was a center of blue-collar manufacturing is now dominated by the service economy....

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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 Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America
    • By: Mary Otto
    • Narrated by: Suehyla El'Attar
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 275 ratings
    • Teeth takes listeners on a disturbing journey into America's silent epidemic of oral disease, exposing the hidden connections between tooth decay and stunted job prospects....

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    • Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
    • By: Angus Deaton
    • Narrated by: Matthew Brenher
    • Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 01-14-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 252 ratings
    • Demonstrating how changes in health and living standards have transformed our lives, The Great Escape is a powerful guide to addressing the well-being of all nations....

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    • The Modern Plagues
    • By: Paul Farmer
    • Narrated by: Derek Shoales
    • Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • A physician-anthropologist with more than fifteen years in the field, Paul Farmer writes from the front lines of the war against the modern plagues of AIDS and tuberculosis and shows why, even more than those of history, they target the poor....

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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 677 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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    • 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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    • 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 Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
    • By: Eric Klinenberg
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 251 ratings
    • In Palaces for the People, Eric Klinenberg suggests a way forward. He believes that the future of democratic societies rests not simply on shared values but on shared spaces: the libraries, synagogues, and parks where crucial, sometimes life-saving connections, are formed....

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    • How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives
    • By: Michael A. Heller, James Salzman
    • Narrated by: René Ruiz
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 264 ratings
    • Mine! draws on mind-bending, often infuriating, and always fascinating accounts from business, history, courtrooms, and everyday life to reveal how the rules of ownership control our lives and shape our world....

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    • Retirement Insecurity in the Age of Inequality
    • By: Katherine S. Newman
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Retirement insecurity is an increasingly serious manifestation of the vast inequality that risks destroying the social fabric in America. And the problem of inequality has moved from an academic preoccupation to a growing theme in national and local politics....

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    • Saúde, riqueza e as origens da desigualdade [Health, Wealth and the Origins of Inequality]
    • By: Angus Deaton, Marcelo Levy - tradução
    • Narrated by: Ingo Ostrovsky
    • Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-23
    • Language: Portuguese
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    • Vencedor do Prêmio Nobel de Economia analisa como populações escaparam da pobreza e por que as desigualdades ainda são tão presentes no cenário global....

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    • The Second Edition Street Ethics
    • By: Larry M. Brooks
    • Narrated by: Larry M. Brooks
    • Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 11-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • 96 takes you on a breathtaking journey through Larry M. Brooks' early adolescent years of hustling in the back woods of Liberty, Texas, to his adventures of adapting to middle class life as a military brat....

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    • How America Was Sold Out
    • By: Sarah Johnson
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-24
    • Language: English
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    • "The Great Capitalist Betrayal: How America Was Sold Out" is a compelling and eye-opening book that explores how capitalism has failed America. ...

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    • How Medicine Fails Women
    • By: Marieke Bigg
    • Narrated by: Daphne Kouma
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 02-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Dr Marieke Bigg explores the past, present and future of the sexism inherent in medicine and medical research—and how to change it....

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    • Feminism’s unfinished business
    • By: Eliane Glaser
    • Narrated by: Elaine Glaser
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 05-27-21
    • Language: English
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    • In this searing and vital book, Eliane Glaser asks why mothers are idealised, yet treated so poorly; why campaigns for mothers have become so unfashionable; and what we need to do to shift the needle and improve the business of child-rearing for everyone....

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