The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills

David A. Ansell, MD, is the senior vice president and associate provost for community health equity as well as the Michael E. Kelly Professor of Medicine at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. He is the author of County: Life, Death, and Politics at Chicago’s Public Hospital.
 

Foreword by Chicago Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot
Preface: One Street, Two Worlds

Part 1: American Roulette

Chapter 1: American Roulette
Chapter 2: Structural Violence and the Death Gap
Chapter 3: Location, Location, Location
Chapter 4: Perception Is Reality
Chapter 5: The Three Bs: Beliefs, Behavior, Biology

Part 2: Trapped by Inequity

Chapter 6: Fire and Rain: Life and Death in Natural Disasters
Chapter 7: Mass Incarceration, Premature Death, and Community Health
Chapter 8: Immigration Status and Health Inequality: The Case of Transplant

Part 3: Health Care Inequality

Chapter 9: The US Health Care System: Separate and Unequal
Chapter 10: The Poison Pill: Health Insurance in America

Part 4: The Cure

Chapter 11: Community Efficacy and the Death Gap
Chapter 12: Community Activism against Structural Violence
Chapter 13: Observe, Judge, Act

Afterword
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index