A review of three journal articles shows the significant impact that poverty has on physical and mental health status, as well as all causes of mortality.
Lorraine M. Stone, MD, MSPH and James A. Tulsky, MD
Physicians should develop a specific strategy for talking to relatively healthy patients about their CPR preferences in the event they become seriously ill in the future.
Health practitioners can help reduce health disparities if they consider the implications and affect that patients' geographical location has on their health.