Please read the article by Pampel, Krueger, and Denney. As you read it, pay attention to the complex interplay of socioeconomic status and health, where lack of resources not only limits one's access to health care, healthy foods, healthy neighbourhoods, and the like, but also conditions one's expectations of health and health behavior. In other words, think about the multiple ways that social class constrains and enables health.

Please read the article by Paul Farmer, Bruce Nizeye, Sara Stulac, and Salmaan Keshavjee. While the first article in this module reviews numerous ways in which social class can impact health (positively or negatively), this piece by Farmer and colleagues turns to the critical question about the relationship of poverty and disease, by framing the ways that poverty causes disease and illness as a form of violence. Furthermore, they explore the role of clinical practitioners with respect to mitigating the health consequences of poverty.