Ripples of Hope in the Mississippi Delta: Charting the Health Equity Policy Agenda

by David K. Jones, Debra Bingham (editor), Nicole Huberfeld (editor)

334 pages, Hardcover

Published December 10, 2024

Reviews

[Victoria Morrongiello · Rating 5 out of 5]

I typically hate assigned reading (tb to Swing Time by Zadie Smith) but I think this may be the first summer reading book that I’ve loved.

It was heavy and I did have to put it down a number of times from feeling hopeless (despite hope being in the title). But overall great read no notes.

And might I just throw a huge thank you to the editors of this book who had the passion and commitment to continue Jones work so that this could be published.

[Olivia LaSalle · Rating 3 out of 5]

Had to read for grad school. Talking about all the highly interconnected ways Americans get stuck in the lower end of the wage gap and the worst living conditions in the delta.

[SE McGrath · Rating 5 out of 5]

An absolutely thorough answer to Why aren’t some people very healthy? Everything you ever learned about public health concepts is meticulously delineated in this book.

This is why.

It’s the poverty and the racism and the transportation and the education and the environment and the cycles that keep them all endlessly intertwined. It is 400 hundred years of decisions made and not made.

But there is hope here—outlined in policy proposals for each level of life and community and investment. It will be a long process, but the instructions are right here for those who want to do the work and make the investments.