Status Syndrome
How Your Social Standing Directly Affects Your Health
1st Edition
Published on 12. April 2012
320 pages
978-1-4088-3419-0 (ISBN)
Description
Why do Oscar winners live for an average of four years longer than other Hollywood actors?
Who experiences the most stress - the decision-makers or those who carry out their orders?
Why do the Japanese have better health than other rich populations, and Keralans in India have better health than other poor populations - and what do they have in common?
In this eye-opening book, internationally renowned epidemiologist Michael Marmot sets out to answer these and many other fascinating questions in order to understand the relationship between where we stand in the social hierarchy and our health and longevity. It is based on more than thirty years of front-line research between health and social circumstances. Marmot's work has taken him round the world showing the similar patterns that could be affecting the length of your life - and how you can change it.
Who experiences the most stress - the decision-makers or those who carry out their orders?
Why do the Japanese have better health than other rich populations, and Keralans in India have better health than other poor populations - and what do they have in common?
In this eye-opening book, internationally renowned epidemiologist Michael Marmot sets out to answer these and many other fascinating questions in order to understand the relationship between where we stand in the social hierarchy and our health and longevity. It is based on more than thirty years of front-line research between health and social circumstances. Marmot's work has taken him round the world showing the similar patterns that could be affecting the length of your life - and how you can change it.
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-4088-3419-0 (9781408834190)
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Sir Michael Marmot is Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health and Director of the International Centre for Health and Society, University, College, London, and Adjunct Professor of Health and Social Behavior at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Some Are More Equal than Others
- 2. Men and Women Behaving Badly?
- 3. Poverty Enriched
- 4. Relatively Speaking
- 5. Who's in Charge?
- 6. Home Alone
- 7. Trusting Together
- 8. The Missing Men of Russia
- 9. The Travails of the Fathers. and Mothers
- 10. The Moral Imperative and the Bottom Line
- Appendix: Recommendations from the Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health (The Acheson Report)
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography
- Notes
- A Note on the Author
- By the Same Author
- eCopyright
