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October 2009, Vol 99, No. 10 | American Journal of Public Health 1735
© 2009 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2009.178152

EDITOR'S CHOICE

A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

Kenneth Rochel de Camargo, Jr, MD, PhD

International Associate Editor, AJPH

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.


Figure 1
The connection between poor living conditions and poor health is a traditional trope in public health (Waitzkin H. The Second Sickness: Contradictions of Capitalist Health Care. 2nd edition. Lanham, MD: Rowan & Littlefield Publishers; 2000:55–73). In a book originally published in 1844, Friedrich Engels referred to the effects of the dismal living conditions of the English workers he closely studied thus: "That a class living under the conditions already sketched and is so ill-provided with the most necessary means of subsistence, cannot be healthy and can reach no advanced age, is self-evident" (Engels F. The Condition of the Working Class . . . [Full Text]






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