WP 4 Blog 1
I think that I'm going to look at poverty as a social determinant of health, and more specifically, look at how it exacerbates the spread of tuberculosis, a respiratory infection caused by particulates from infected people. I know a little about the topic, and the reason why I wanted to study TB specifically is that it is such an old disease that affects people of different socioeconomic statuses in vastly different ways. It is practically eradicated in wealthy and developed societies, but is so endemic in impoverished areas. The story of tuberculosis and those that are poor is a recurring one that public health systems have failed to address. They think about medicine as something that is very science-based, rather than something that encompasses pretty much everything about a person's life. I'm going to get statistics and first hand accounts of this issue to use in my paper.
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