When you ask nurses what single change would make the world a healthier place, eradicating poverty usually comes top of the list, followed by improving sanitation and housing and tackling smoking and obesity. Of course, these other factors are also linked to being poor. Nurses, wherever they are in the world and in whichever branch of health care they work, see every day the physical and psychological damage that poverty inflicts on human beings
Nursing Standard. 22, 7, 1-1. doi: 10.7748/ns.22.7.1.s1
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