Why Are Health Disparities Everyone's Problem?

by Lisa Cooper

Book Overview

How can we all work together to eliminate the avoidable injustices that plague our health care system and society?

Health is determined by far more than a person's choices and behaviors. Social and political conditions, economic forces, physical environments, institutional policies, health care system features, social relationships, risk behaviors, and genetic predispositions all contribute to physical and mental well-being. In America...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421441152
• ISBN13: 9781421441153
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 6.9"