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...down on violence, but to pinpoint the social factors that make the more poorly likely to suffer, and this "gradient," or the degree to which different groups are unequal in health, is far steeper in the U.S. than in most other industrialized countries. One reason, according to commissioner David Satcher, a former U.S. Surgeon General, may be that the U.S. comprises a more diverse population than other places, mixing a high proportion of recent immigrants with long-time American dwellers, which makes it all the more difficult to tackle social determinants early in life. "Two," Satcher says, "[the U.S.] invests...
...recommendations fall into the latter category, and the commissioners are convinced that focusing on the social determinants of health will save both lives and cash in the long run. "We're wasting a lot of the money that we invest in health and health care," Satcher says. "All sorts of studies show that targeting the social determinants of health is more cost-effective - for everybody, not just for those at the bottom. Everybody in this country, whether they know it or not, suffers from a system that is not committed to closing that [health...
...York Times best-seller list takes an author to swank Manhattan publishing luncheons and the morning talk-show circuit. But radio and TV host Tavis Smiley, editor of The Covenant with Black America--a manifesto by prominent African-Americans, including former Surgeon General David Satcher and Princeton professor Cornel West, that will reach No. 1 on next week's nonfiction paperback list--just went to church. Published in February by the small black-owned Third World Press, the Covenant has sold 250,000 copies, many on Smiley's barnstorming tour of African-American congregations around the U.S. Each revival-like...
...Paul was a brilliant physician who was very sensitive,” Surgeon General David Satcher told the Washington Times. “He was an up-and-coming star in the area of public health. He was destined to be one of the great leaders...
...early hysteria over AIDS, telling the well how to stay that way and reminding them that in the meantime there was no reason to fear the sick. Thompson and Ridge, national doctors without a medical degree between them, have been no match for that kind of performance. Even Satcher has not achieved the same iconic status. During the anthrax attacks, says Dr. Jeffrey Koplan, chief of the CDC, "we found ourselves deploying more and more people just to work on communication issues...