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disease and poverty  

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  • There is a direct correlation between poverty and disease. Poverty creates a cyclical relationship with disease for vulnerable groups and countries in that poverty causes people and countries to be hopeless, unaccountable, and irresponsible and these in turn create the conditions for disease to fester and spread. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Health; Disease and Poverty]

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