Unequal Health

Grace Budrys is professor emerita at DePaul University. She chaired the committee that created the Master of Public Health program and served as director for one year, directed the Public Services Master program, and was a professor in the Department of Sociology. Her books include Our Unsystematic Health Care System and How Nonprofits Work.

• Chapter 1—IntroductionChapter 2—Identifying Disease and Its CausesChapter 3—Causes of DeathChapter 4—Age, Sex, and Race or EthnicityChapter 5—External Causes of DeathChapter 6—Healthy and Unhealthy Behaviors: DietChapter 7—Healthy and Unhealthy Behaviors: Exercise, Smoking, and Substance AbuseChapter 8—Health CareChapter 9—GenesChapter 10—StressChapter 11—Social Determinants of Health Chapter 12—Social InequalityChapter 13—Unequal Health

Health shows us how people are affected by the lives they lead. Learning about it gives us a window into how people experience society and its injustices. Grace Budrys is a guide you can trust: she understands her subject, writes simply and clearly, and tells it like it is. As you read this book, you will find she becomes a friend as well as a teacher. This book is a gift to us all.