REPORT (United Stated) - The Poor Pay More - Poverty's High Cost to Health

The Poor Pay More - Poverty’s High Cost to Health

George A. Kaplan, Ph.D. Thomas Francis Collegiate Emeritus Professor of Public Health
Founder Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health - University of Michigan
September 2009

Available online as PDF file [39p.] at:
http://treefortremotecontrol.com/users/spotlight_on_poverty/RelatedFiles/e995cd7a-8416-4b89-983a-4f39fbf6de39.pdf

“….describes factors that can result in poor health for low-income people, including neighborhood safety, housing quality and access to nutritious food. The report examines policies for addressing these problems such as increasing the minimum wage, investing in early childhood education and increasing aid to jobless workers. This report was issued by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in conjunction with Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity.

“…..This report describes many of the ways in which being poor is bad for one’s health and points to policies that have the potential for restoring the prospect of good health to the lives of the poor. We present compelling evidence that poverty has an impact on not just the body politic but the body corporeal as well—that being poor leaves a broad footprint on the health of individuals….”

Content:
- Introduction
- The Social Determinants of Health
- Finding Solutions
- Conclusion
- End Notes
- Figure References
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Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health www.sph.umich.edu/cseph University of Michigan