Poverty's Toll on Health Outcomes: What Little Rock's Own Data Reveals
Arkansas's most populous county sits at the center of a healthcare paradox. Pulaski County is home to UAMS Medical Center, Baptist Health, and Arkansas Children's Hospital - over 3,000 physicians and 8,000 nurses serving a population of roughly 400,000. Yet the county's health outcomes tell a different story, one shaped less by clinical capacity than by the concentrated, compounding force of poverty.A review of publicly available data from the...
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