The Health Gap: The Challenge of An Unequal World

Michael Marmot

400 pages

the complicated issues of healthcare remain a contentious topic in mainstream politics and media. However, as reflected by Michael Marmot, the issue of wellness equality is a growing global problem that is not easily solved with a quick fix.

Exhaustively researched, The Health Gap, finds Marmot diving in headfirst exploring both the medical and socio-economic causes for this problem. At the core of his thesis is an unyielding belief that the quality individual health is directly correlated to whether or not someone comes from a low or high social strata.

To him this disparity can be overcome by installing environments whereby individuals are empowered with control of their own healthcare.

Subsequently, he also believes that withholding the mechanisms for this implementation is unjust and cruel. His ideas are not simple or by any means instantaneous. However he does believe that they are necessary in order to improve world health.

Using a plethora of hardcore data and numbers as a supporting linchpin for his ideology, Marmot steadfastly argues that equality can only occur with a radical shift in policy whereby contemporary health issues are confronted by instilling the aforementioned means of individual empowerment.