Health Affairs Book Review: Bridging The Death Gap
By: Damon Tweedy, Health Affairs
Headlines portray Chicago, Illinois, as the epicenter of urban gun violence. But most premature deaths among Chicago’s black residents are caused by heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. In his new book, The Death Gap, David Ansell, senior vice president and associate provost for community health equity and a professor of medicine at Chicago’s Rush University Medical Center, asserts that structural violence is the true cause of the dramatic racial differences ...
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WSW: Inequality in America Kills, Doctor Says
By EARLENE MCMICHAEL
None of Dr. David Ansell's patients who needed a transplant ever got one in his 27 years at two of Chicago's safety-net hospitals, yet the patients from the trauma units there, many of them black, he says, provided the organs for the procedures at the wealthier hospitals. Why? Ansell says the poorer hospitals had no transplant specialists on staff and, even if a referral were to be made, either the specialist didn't ...
One doc’s concern about Chicago’s ‘death gap’ fuels sobering new book
Crain's
Dr. David Ansell has spent about 40 years working at three hospitals within a 2-mile stretch on the Near West Side, treating patients and serving in various management roles.
He can't shake the inequity he's witnessed among his patients over the years, and how it's contributed to their health. Consider this: The life expectancy for someone in the Loop is 85 years, but less than 5 miles west it plummets to 69 years.
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Watch now: @DrDavidAAnsell and MPC's Chloe Gurin-Sands discuss how inequality kills. #ThinknDrink #TheDeathGap pic.twitter.com/E9RZ1QhtSm
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NATURE: Inequality: Live poor, die young
Nature.com
Abigail A. Sewell examines a physician's study of how deprivation shortens lifespan.
David Ansell's passionately written The Death Gap presents a powerful case for social inequality as a cause of disease and disparities in health. The social epidemiologist, physician and public-hospital veteran invokes the concept of 'death gaps' to describe differences in life expectancy by race, ethnicity, class and geography.
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Urban Think & Drink — The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills
There is a 30-year gap in life expectancy between America’s wealthiest and poorest neighborhoods. This trend holds true in Chicago, where life expectancy varies by neighborhood, income, and race.
In his 2017 book, The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills, Chicago-based physician David Ansell exposes the structural roots of the life expectancy gap: racial and economic discrimination. Ansell makes the case for why inequality should be considered a societal illness, and provides action steps to ...
ThinkProgress article: Author of ‘The Death Gap’ talks about health care inequities
Scientific racism and lack of access to quality health care hurts low-income families and people of color.
Although the Affordable Care Act has expanded health care access for millions of people, unequal access to treatment is still shortening the lives of many Americans. David Ansell, who has worked as a doctor in low-income Chicago communities for nearly four decades, focuses on these health care disparities in his new book, The Death Gap.
ThinkProgress interviewed Ansell on some of the ...
How Obamacare is Moving Us Forward – Dr. David Ansell
Chicago Humanities Festival
While not perfect, Dr. David Ansell, former Chief Medical Officer at Rush University Medical Center and author of COUNTY and THE DEATH GAP, argues that the Affordable Care Act is at least moving the United States significantly closer to equality in healthcare, even as it faces repeal and replace efforts in Congress. Here's what he had to say on the matter at CHF's Springfest/17: Stuff. Watch the full video: http://chf.to/2tiHc1q