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Status Syndrome: How Your Place on the Social Gradient Directly Affects Your Health
Michael Marmot
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Description for Status Syndrome: How Your Place on the Social Gradient Directly Affects Your Health
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JFSC; MBNH; VFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 226.
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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408872680
SKU
V9781408872680
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99-50
About Michael Marmot
Sir Michael Marmot is Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at UCL, a leading intellectual both in the UK and globally. He will take up the Lown visiting professorship at Harvard in 2015. He chaired the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health (2005-8), his recommendations have been adopted by the World Health Assembly and taken up by many countries ... Read more
Reviews for Status Syndrome: How Your Place on the Social Gradient Directly Affects Your Health
‘Marmot's important study shows that - in every culture - our happiness and health are closely related to the place we occupy in the status hierarchy, and that that the key to status is our occupation'
Will Hutton, Guardian
‘Marmot's fascinating study not only presents its formidable research accessibly, but offers pragmatic steps with which governments, if so ... Read more
Will Hutton, Guardian
‘Marmot's fascinating study not only presents its formidable research accessibly, but offers pragmatic steps with which governments, if so ... Read more