Health Disparities

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    • Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and the Social Determinants of Health
    • Written by: Donald A. Barr MD PhD
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 2020-12-15
    • Language: English
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    • The health-care system in the United States has been called the best in the world. Yet wide disparities persist between social groups, and many Americans suffer from poorer health than people in other developed countries....

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    • How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids
    • Written by: Madeline Levine PhD
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 2015-09-29
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In recent years, numerous studies have shown that bright, charming teenagers from affluent, loving families are experiencing epidemic rates of mental illness....

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    • The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
    • Written by: David Brooks
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 2011-03-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • With unequaled insight and brio, David Brooks, the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bobos in Paradise, has long explored and explained the way we live....

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    • How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die
    • Written by: Keith Payne
    • Narrated by: James Foster
    • Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 2017-05-02
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Today's inequality is on a scale that none of us has seen in our lifetimes, yet this disparity between rich and poor has ramifications that extend far beyond mere financial means....

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    • The Deadly Rise of Injury and Disaster - Who Profits and Who Pays the Price
    • Written by: Jessie Singer
    • Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
    • Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 2022-02-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • A journalist recounts the surprising history of accidents and reveals how they’ve come to define all that’s wrong with America....

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    • The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society
    • Written by: Dr. Arline T. Geronimus
    • Narrated by: Alma Cuervo
    • Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 2023-03-28
    • Language: English
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    • Fusing science and social justice, renowned public health researcher Dr. Arline T. Geronimus offers an urgent and necessary book exploring the ways in which systemic injustice erodes the health of marginalized people....

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    • The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America
    • Written by: Priya Fielding-Singh PhD
    • Narrated by: Priya Fielding-Singh PhD, York Whitaker
    • Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 2021-11-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Packed with lyrical storytelling and groundbreaking research, as well as Fielding-Singh’s personal experiences with food as a biracial, South Asian American woman, How the Other Half Eats illuminates exactly how inequality starts on the dinner plate....

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    • How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Well-Being
    • Written by: Kate Pickett, Richard Wilkinson
    • Narrated by: Shridhar Solanki
    • Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 2019-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A groundbreaking investigation of how inequality infects our minds and gets under our skin....

    Price: $23.31 or 1 Credit

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    • Discovering the Health, Wealth, and Power of Neighborhoods
    • Written by: Cormac Russell, John McKnight
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 2022-09-02
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Find out how to uncover the hidden talents, assets, and abilities in your neighborhood and bring them together to create a vibrant and joyful community....

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    • Why Our Societies Are Coming Apart and How We Put Them Back Together Again
    • Written by: Jon Yates
    • Narrated by: Sid Sagar
    • Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 2021-06-10
    • Language: English
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    • This landmark book tackles a deceptively simple idea: the more we spend time with people unlike ourselves, doing things together, the more understanding, tolerant and even friendly we become....

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    • How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse
    • Written by: Gregg Easterbrook
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 2003-11-21
    • Language: English
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    • Gregg Easterbrook makes the persuasive assertion that almost all aspects of Western life have vastly improved in the past century; and yet today, most men and women feel less happy...

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    • A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine
    • Written by: Damon Tweedy M.D.
    • Narrated by: Damon Tweedy M.D.
    • Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 2024-12-17
    • Language: English
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    • One doctor's passionate and profound memoir of his experience grappling with race, bias, and the unique health problems of black Americans.

    Price: $19.29 or 1 Credit

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    • Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States
    • Written by: Anne Pollock
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 2022-05-10
    • Language: English
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    • A crucial component of anti-Black racism is the unconscionable disparity in health outcomes between Black and white Americans. Sickening examines this institutionalized inequality through dramatic, concrete events from the past two decades....

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    • How Status Divides Us
    • Written by: Susan T Fiske
    • Narrated by: Caroline Miller
    • Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 2013-08-29
    • Language: English
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    • An insightful examination of why we compare ourselves to those above and below us....

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    • Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich (The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series)
    • Written by: Thom Hartmann
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Series: The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series
    • Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 2021-07-21
    • Language: English
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    • Popular progressive radio host and New York Times best-selling author Thom Hartmann reveals how and why attempts to establish affordable universal healthcare in the United States have been thwarted and what we can do to finally make it a reality....

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    • How Yoga Helped Me and Why It Needs to Save Itself
    • Written by: Nadia Gilani
    • Narrated by: Avita Jay
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 2022-05-26
    • Language: English
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    • Writer and pioneering yoga teacher Nadia Gilani presents a powerful love letter to yoga and an urgent manifesto for its recovery....

    Price: $18.50 or 1 Credit

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    • How Our Unequal Society Fails Us during Outbreaks
    • Written by: Troy Tassier PhD
    • Narrated by: David Thorpe
    • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 2024-04-16
    • Language: English
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    • When an epidemic outbreak occurs, the most physical and financial harm historically falls upon the people who can least afford it: the economically and socially marginalized.

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    • A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives
    • Written by: Gary Younge
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 2016-10-04
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning Guardian journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during the course of a single day in the United States....

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    • Retirement Insecurity in the Age of Inequality
    • Written by: Katherine S. Newman
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 2019-01-22
    • Language: English
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    • Retirement insecurity is an increasingly serious manifestation of the vast inequality that risks destroying the social fabric in America. And the problem of inequality has moved from an academic preoccupation to a growing theme in national and local politics....

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    • How Inequality Kills
    • Written by: David A. Ansell
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 2017-05-23
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • The poor die sooner. Blacks die sooner. And poor urban Blacks die sooner than almost all other Americans....

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