Empowering the Impoverished and Reducing Healthcare Costs
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Empowering the Impoverished and Reducing Healthcare Costs
Abstracts Empowering the Impoverished and Reducing Healthcare Costss Empowering the Impoverished and Reducing Healthcare Costs Kimberlie J. Warren, PhD, MPA Background: Socioeconomic disadvantage is a major risk factor for poor health and a consistent contributor to chronic stress, both of which are disempowering to individuals and communities. Poverty has been linked to a higher prevalence of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Global Advances in Health and Medicine
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2164-9561,2164-9561
DOI: 10.7453/gahmj.2014.bpa15