Adding to poor patients' incomes works to decrease the health effects of poverty,
Canadian doctors are finding.
"Treating people at the low income with a higher income
will have at least as big an impact on their health as any other drug I could
prescript to them," Bloch said.
"I do see poverty as a disease," Bloch said.
For children in particular, the strong and frequent
bombardment of "toxic stress" from living in substandard housing with
adults who are also stressed can set the stage for lifelong damage, doctors
say.
