"Poverty is often cited as contributing to poor health. Now, in an unusual approach, researchers have calculated how many people poverty kills and presented their findings, along with an argument that social factors can cause death the same way that behavior like smoking cigarettes does." - New York Times, Jul 4, 2011

Full Article can be found at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/05/health/05social.html?_r=1