Foreclosure crisis is a health crisis states Philidelphia professor

Business Week reports on a PR release by a Philidelphia university that says, “The foreclosure crisis is also a health crisis,” says lead author Craig E. Pollack, MD, MHS, who conducted the research while working as an internist and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at Penn. “We need to do more to ensure that if people lose their homes, they don’t also lose their health.”

Of course the two go hand in hand. If someone can't pay the most basic of needs, shelter, do you think they are taking care of themselves? Going to the gym religiously? or maybe buying low-fat, organic or healthy alternatives? No, of course not. We need to address people's basic needs. People who go through foreclosure most likely don't have health care. I wonder if any study was completed on linking the two.

Duh, right? Read on...