"Health Problems of Inner City Poor Reach Crisis Point"

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"Health Problems of Inner City Poor Reach Crisis Point"

New York Times (12/24/90), P. 1
Rosenthal, Elisabeth

Abstract: In the late 1980s and 1990, worsening urban poverty, poor sanitation, overcrowding, inadequate medical care, and poor nutrition produced epidemics of illness among residents of U.S. inner cites after decades of gradual urban health improvement. Epidemics of sexually transmitted disease, tuberculosis, and HIV and the crack epidemic have stretched urban health care to the breaking point. The health of the urban poor has reached critical condition, and much of the problem stems from lack of access to medical care for patients with chronic illnesses such as diabetes and asthma, which usually do not kill more wealthy people who do not endure the greater daily struggle to survive of the impoverished.

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