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.
In a study of New York physicians' compliance with reporting of communicable diseases, surveyed physicians responded better to legal warnings than to requests that explained public health benefits.
Health practitioners can help reduce health disparities if they consider the implications and affect that patients' geographical location has on their health.
Dr Jim Withers and Dave Lettrich join Ethics talk to discuss how street outreach programs help mitigate harms of drug use among people experiencing homelessness.