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. 2012 Sep-Oct;73(5):366-73.

Poverty and health: focus on North Carolina

Christopher Mansfield  1 , Lloyd F Novick
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  • PMID: 23189422

Poverty and health: focus on North Carolina

Christopher Mansfield et al. N C Med J. 2012 Sep-Oct.

Abstract

The association between poverty and poor health is substantial and the effects are experienced over a lifetime; they are borne most heavily by children. Mitigation requires a public health approach, intervening upstream to increase economic opportunity and invest in early childhood development, healthy communities, education, nutrition, and preventive health services.

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