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Health shocks and poverty

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WHO reports that health shocks and stresses currently push around 100 million people into poverty every year. — Health shocks and poverty · 2025WHO · 2025Source named — not yet verified

Source

WHO — https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/climate-change-and-health. Verified in source set / retroactive normalization pending.

What it proves

Use to argue that health policy is also poverty policy.

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Is health determined more by biomedical care or by social conditions?#269 · asked in 2 years