THAT poor health, poor health care, and poverty are closely intertwined is a proposition that
is widely accepted. While we know less than we might about the precise relationship …

IT iS virtually impossible to consider I poverty and public health without examining the whole
of contemporary America, for we cannot isolate poverty or health from their interlocking …

Few would take exception to the proposition that an improvement in the material well-being
of the poor would enhance not only their living standards but their health as well. A number …

It has been well established that income inequality and poverty in the United States are high
and continue to increase, especially since 2000. 2 There is also empirical evidence of a link …

Periodically the results of class comparisons in mortality rates have been reported. These
reports have permitted comparisons since the earlier part of this century to the present …

THE poverty we are dealing with is not the kind due to flood and famine. It is the kind that
has existed since the Industrial Revolution and is especially poignant because it exists in the …

There is broad agreement today that good health is a prerequisite for human development
and for maintaining peace and security, without which national economies cannot thrive …

Critics of US poverty measurement have long complained that the official poverty definition
has serious defects. These deficiencies are most apparent in its treatment of health …

Good health is one of man's most precious assets. The desire to live, to be well, to maintain
full command over one's faculties, and to see one's loved ones free from disease, disability …