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Even As Us Spending On Healthcare Skyrockets, Impoverished Americans Continue To Fall Ill And Die Of Preventable Conditions. Although The Majority Of Health Outcomes Are Shaped By Non-medical Factors, Public And Private Healthcare Reform Efforts Have Largely Ignored The Complex Local Circumstances That Make It Difficult For Struggling Men, Women, And Children To Live Healthier Lives. In Dying And Living In The Neighborhood, Dr. Prabhjot Singh Argues That We Must Look Beyond The Walls Of The Hospital And Into The Neighborhoods Where Patients Live And Die To Address The Troubling Rise In Chronic Disease. Building On His Training As A Physician In Harlem, Dr. Singh Draws From Research In Sociology And Economics To Look At How Our Healthcare Systems Are Designed And How The Development Of Technologies Like The Internet Enable Us To Rethink Strategies For Assembling Healthier Neighborhoods. In Part I, Singh Presents The Story Of Ray, A Patient Whose Death Illuminated How He Had Lived, His Neighborhood Context, And The Forces That Accelerated His Decline. In Part Ii, Singh Introduces Nationally Recognized Pioneers Who Are Acting On The Local Level To Build Critical Components Of A Neighb

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Author

Prabhjot Singh, MD, PhD

Publisher

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781421420448

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, Medical, Fiction

Rating

4.06 / 5 (15 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14