The Health of Nations: Why Inequality is Harmful to Your Health
by Ichiro Kawachi, Bruce P. Kennedy
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Book Description
A powerful demonstration of how global economic inequality is undermining our
nation's health and our quality of life. Applying to the United States the kind
of scrutiny
that Nobel-prize winning economist Amartya Sen has devoted to developing
countries,
The Health of Nations demonstrates that growing inequality is undermining
health,
welfare, and community life in America. Harvard professors Ichiro Kawachi and
Bruce
P. Kennedy review the social costs of inequality, revealing that the United
States and
other wealthy countries with high levels of social inequality have lower general
health
than do more equitable societies, rich or poor. , The Health of Nations makes an
urgent argument for social justice as the necessary vehicle for the betterment
of society,
including improving the health of our bodies and our body politic. Synthesizing
years of
groundbreaking research on the connections between social structures and health
and
welfare, Kawachi and Kennedy show that the cost of inequality is greater than we
realize. They dramatically demonstrate that growing inequalities, far from being
a
benign by-product of capitalism, threaten the very freedoms that economic
development is thought to bring about: freedom from want, freedom from ill
health,
freedom to exercise democratic choice, and freedom to pursue leisure and
happiness.
In the vein of Robert D. Putnam's Bowling Alone, The Health of Nations is a
major
new work of social science with dramatic implications for public policy.

About the Author
Ichiro Kawachi is the director of the Harvard Center for Society and Health, and
an
associate professor at the Harvard School of Public Health. Bruce P. Kennedy is
an
assistant professor at the Harvard School of Public Health. Kawachi and Kennedy
are
recipients of the Robert Wood Johnson Investigator Awards in Health Policy
Research.

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