Includes bibliographic references (pages 321-343) and index.
Summary:
Many Americans know in their bones what public health statistics have evidenced for decades: systemic injustice takes a physical, too-often-deadly toll on Black, brown, working-class, and poor communities. Regardless of their healthy habits or genetic predisposition, people who experience cultural oppression or economic exploitation are disproportionately more likely to suffer from chronic diseases and to die at much younger ages than their middle-and upper-class white counterparts. Black mothers die during childbirth at a rate three times than white mothers. White kids in high-poverty Appalachian regions have a healthy-life expectancy of fifty years, while the vast majority of US youth can expect to both survive and be able-bodied at fifty with decades of healthy life ahead of them.
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