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environmental changes that promise to address the health needs of such a diverse population,
in order to eliminate the disparities in health status and access to health services
that now exist, however, new knowledge concerning the influence of socioeconomic
factors in the causation of disease and the effectiveness of policy - related interventions
to alter such factors is required In the meantime, if we are to have any hope of eliminating
disparities in health we need to address the broad socioeconomic determinants
of disease that we already know influence health, and we must seek to eliminate those
inequities in power and wealth that all available evidence suggests is still at the root of
the problem. Health educators can be at the vanguard of this effort by expanding their
work to influence community - level and national policy development through
advocacy.
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