Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health recently published a study in the American Journal of Public Health that suggested that poverty and dropout rates may be equally important as smoking in determining health disparities.
I guess I should be glad that Columbia is doing this research. So that now we can say with the backing of academia what we’ve known and said all along and that James Baldwin put so simply, “it’s extremely expensive to be poor.” Columbia researchers suggested that in light of these findings public health policy “redouble its efforts on non-medical factors, such as high school graduation and poverty reduction programs.” Poverty reduction programs? What do you call that in a capitalist system? Oh yeah, socialism.
Posted by Flash on December 26, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Very interesting article. Looking forward to read another nice articles from you.