Poverty and health: nursing facing this challenge

Abstract

According to World Bank estimates, there are 1.5 billion very poor people in the world. For those who live in conditions of poverty, the consequences go beyond economic and income problems. The greatest adversities to which the poor are subjected are; missed opportunities or lack of material goods for the development of human life, such as; deprivation of the dignity of being human, that which makes him a slave, which restricts him access to the fundamental freedoms of action and decision, which prevents him from developing coherently and makes him vulnerable to diseases, economic reverberations and natural.