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There are two pandemics, but why do we keep forgetting the underlying one?

Posted on August 26, 2020 by caitlinalder

  The pervasive poverty pandemic is a major threat to health and survival. History books and fiction frequently feature the tight links between poverty and health, but this ‘common knowledge’ is consistently ignored in political responses to public health challenges. Given the firmly established relationship between poverty and health inequalities, explained by the “inequitable distribution of […]

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BMJ Global Health, International development, Poverty, Universal healthcare coverageTagged global health, poverty, universal social protection

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