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.
This article sketches the history of medical volunteerism in Africa from the early religious and colonial medical programs through current humanitarian programs, assessing the role of student volunteerism as well.
A physician attorney argues that the best way to ensure that physicians don't refuse to treat patients is to create a system in which their medical education is fully funded and they must repay a debt to society.
Health practitioners can help reduce health disparities if they consider the implications and affect that patients' geographical location has on their health.