Poverty and Health in the United States

It is bad enough that a man should be ignorant for it cuts him off from the commerce of other men's minds. It is perhaps worse that a man should be poor for this condemns him to a life of stint and scheming in which there is no time for dreams and no respite from weariness. But what is surely the worst is that a man should be ill for this prevents his doing anything much about either his poverty or his ignorance. (Nash, R. M., Amer. J. Public Health 58: 167, 1968, from George Kimble, Tropical Africa.)