Health Disparities and the Body Politic 2005
Health Disparities and the Body Politic 2005
WARNING: Social inequality may be harmful to your health. It increases the burden of disability and disease in communities and cuts short lives. Economic deprivation, discrimination, lack of access to health services, and violation or neglect of human rights all play a part in shaping population health.
Yet, despite centuries of evidence on the toll of adverse living and working conditions on health, only been in the past decade has concern with social inequalities in health become part of the mainstream public health agenda.
To explore the role that governments and engaged communities can play in reducing and rectifying social inequities in health worldwide, the Harvard School of Public Health is hosting a three-part symposium series.
WARNING: Social inequality may be harmful to your health. It increases the burden of disability and disease in communities and cuts short lives. Economic deprivation, discrimination, lack of access to health services, and violation or neglect of human rights all play a part in shaping population health.
Yet, despite centuries of evidence on the toll of adverse living and working conditions on health, only been in the past decade has concern with social inequalities in health become part of the mainstream public health agenda.
To explore the role that governments and engaged communities can play in reducing and rectifying social inequities in health worldwide, the Harvard School of Public Health is hosting a three-part symposium series.
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