Dhruv Khullar and Dave A.

Chokshi worked to write “Health, Income, & Poverty: Where

We Are & What Could Help,” in Health Affairs on October 4, 2018. In the article, they stated the
correlation/link between poor health and low income. As well as how a reduced income as well
as scarcity of healthy foods and grocery stores in and around impoverished communities make
it extremely difficult for inhabitants of such communities to be healthy, increasing morbidity and
mortality, and poor health also contributes to reduced income which can lead to the “health-
poverty trap”.
The article works to inform the audience of the health-poverty trap as well as other ways
poverty affects people’s health and other factors that may contribute and would likely attract
readers who would like to be informed in a short and interesting article about the effects poverty
may have on short and long term health, as well as readers who are interested in different policy
initiatives that may combat or reduce these effects. Due to the recency of the article and the
location of the study being in the United States, it lines up well with current statistics and is
relevant to our current economic environment.
Dhruv Khullar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Healthcare Policy and has
done over 99 publications on health-care related topics. He has also been a physician at New
York-Presbyterian Hospital and a contributing writer at The New York Times. Dave A. Chokshi
is a Chief Population Health Officer at New York City Health + Hospitals (H+H) and serves as
CEO of H+H, as well as a clinical associate professor of population health and medicine at the
New York University School of Medicine. Other than being written by extremely accredited
individuals, Health Affairs pre-proofs articles before they are published and only approves
articles from well informed and studied individuals.
This article would be used to respond to how poverty affects one’s health and how
scarcity of healthy food affects the impoverished public, and especially how one’s economic
standing affects different aspects of one’s life.
www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hpb20180817.901935/full/