Mortality Rates

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How Class Kills
Gaffney, A. W.
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2015
A recent study showing rising mortality rates among middle-aged whites drives home the lethality of class inequality.
A Long and Terrible Shadow: White Values, Native Rights in the Americas 1492-1992
Berger, Thomas R.
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1991
Against the odds, Native peoples have waged a tenacious struggle to survive and the re-emerge as distinct cultures.
The Political Economy of Health
Doyal, Lesley
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Social Determinants of Health: Canadian Perspectives
Raphael, Dennis (ed.)
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The social determinants of health are summarized and analyzed by over 30 medical and social academics.
The Wages of Neoliberalism: Poverty, Exile and Early Death
Peries, Sharmini; Hudson, Michael
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2016
Economist Michael Hudson says neoliberal policy will pressure U.S. citizens to emigrate, just as it caused millions to leave Russia, the Baltic States, and now Greece in search of a better life. A res...

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Mortality rate is a measure of the number of deaths in some population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit time.