Health Disparities

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    • Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and the Social Determinants of Health
    • By: Donald A. Barr MD PhD
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 15-12-2020
    • 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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    • The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
    • By: David Brooks
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 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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    • The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America
    • By: Priya Fielding-Singh PhD
    • Narrated by: Priya Fielding-Singh PhD, York Whitaker
    • Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 16-11-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • 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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    • The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society
    • By: Dr. Arline T. Geronimus
    • Narrated by: Alma Cuervo
    • Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 28-03-2023
    • 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 Deadly Rise of Injury and Disaster - Who Profits and Who Pays the Price
    • By: Jessie Singer
    • Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
    • Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 15-02-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 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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    • How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Well-being
    • By: Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett
    • Narrated by: Finlay Robertson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 30-08-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • This audiobook sheds new light on many of the most urgent problems facing societies today, but it is not just an index of our ills....

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    • Discovering the Health, Wealth, and Power of Neighborhoods
    • By: Cormac Russell, John McKnight
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-2022
    • 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
    • By: Jon Yates
    • Narrated by: Sid Sagar
    • Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-2021
    • 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 Status Divides Us
    • By: Susan T Fiske
    • Narrated by: Caroline Miller
    • Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 29-08-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • An insightful examination of why we compare ourselves to those above and below us....

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    • How Yoga Helped Me and Why It Needs to Save Itself
    • By: Nadia Gilani
    • Narrated by: Avita Jay
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 26-05-2022
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Writer and pioneering yoga teacher Nadia Gilani presents a powerful love letter to yoga and an urgent manifesto for its recovery....

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    • Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States
    • By: Anne Pollock
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-2022
    • 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 Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse
    • By: Gregg Easterbrook
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 21-11-2003
    • 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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    • How Inequality Kills
    • By: David A. Ansell
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 23-05-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The poor die sooner. Blacks die sooner. And poor urban Blacks die sooner than almost all other Americans....

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    • America's Lost Youth and the Crisis of Disconnection
    • By: Anne Kim
    • Narrated by: Janet Song
    • Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 11-02-2020
    • Language: English
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    • A deeply affecting exposé of America’s hidden crisis of disconnected youth, in the tradition of Matthew Desmond and Adrian Nicole LeBlanc....

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    • A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine
    • By: Damon Tweedy M.D.
    • Narrated by: Damon Tweedy M.D.
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 17-12-2024
    • Language: English
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    • A passionate and profound memoir, Black Man in a White Coat examines the complex ways in which both black doctors and patients must navigate the difficult and often contradictory terrain of race and medicine.

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    • Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich (The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series)
    • By: Thom Hartmann
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Series: The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series
    • Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 21-07-2021
    • 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 Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse
    • By: Gregg Easterbrook
    • Narrated by: uncredited
    • Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 21-11-2003
    • Language: English
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    • Gregg Easterbrook draws upon three decades of wide-ranging research and thinking to make 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 than in previous generations....

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    • Retirement Insecurity in the Age of Inequality
    • By: Katherine S. Newman
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 22-01-2019
    • 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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    • By: Aryan Sarnaik
    • Narrated by: Nate Schmold
    • Length: 37 mins
    • Release date: 13-09-2024
    • Language: English
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    • James: The Untold Story takes listeners on a tour of the numerous undermined challenges faced by the underprivileged and vulnerable populations of Canada and beyond.

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Sarah Thebarge
    • Narrated by: Sarah Thebarge
    • Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-2017
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Sarah Thebarge's riveting memoir invites listeners to engage in her story of finding connection, love, and redemption in the most unexpected places....

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