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When health and wealth create mutually reinforcing spirals

My chronic illness flares up when I'm stressed about money but I can't afford the treatment that might help so I'm trapped in a cycle where poverty makes me sicker and sickness makes me poorer.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Economic stress exacerbates health conditions while health conditions drain economic resources, creating seemingly inescapable feedback loops.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Body in poverty — health as class condition?”

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