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Medical Industrial Complex: Reproducing health inequities

Medical Industrial Complex: Reproducing health inequities . Christina Tsao. What accounts for the disproportionate rate of poor health in historically disadvantaged communities? . Social inequality is making us sick.

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Medical Industrial Complex: Reproducing health inequities

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  1. Medical Industrial Complex: Reproducing health inequities Christina Tsao

  2. What accounts for the disproportionate rate of poor health in historically disadvantaged communities? Social inequality is making us sick

  3. Shifting the framework for understanding health to focus on the cause of illness, rather than the treatments and cures for diseases.

  4. The U.S. government is in collusion with the pharmaceutical industry to perpetuate health inequities on the basis of sexist, classist and racist ideologies

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