Socioeconomic Status: Education, Income and Employment

This week, consider the readings, the lecture, and the poverty simulation (http://playspent.org/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.) and discuss the following:

  • Reflect upon your experience completing the poverty simulation (http://playspent.org/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.). For example – what surprised you? What didn’t surprise you? What was the take-away message?
  • Is low socioeconomic status a public health problem? Justify your answer.
  • Describe an intervention that could address disparities based on socioeconomic status.