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How Poverty Forces Health Triage Decisions

I schedule my mental health around my physical health because I can only afford to be sick in one way at a time.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Limited resources have forced the person to treat parts of themselves as competing rather than integrated.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Money and physical health — poverty as health condition?”

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