GLOBAL POVERTY AND HEALTH DISPARITIES

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Learn why poverty remains a primary factor in poor health outcomes around the world, driving limited access to clean water and sanitation, healthful food, education, safety, basic rights, and health care. Examine global poverty, including the causes and consequences of global poverty and the ways in which social structures, identities, and policies shape wealth and health. Discuss global distribution of wealth, the wealth-health gradient and social determinants of health in a global context, causes and consequences of global poverty, and policy and programmatic intervention strategies aimed at reducing material hardship and global inequality.