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On the recordNovember 19, 2013
I would like to go back to a point that, I think, several of you have emphasized, and that is one way to decrease the health disparities between high-income and low-income people is to look at the environments around them.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Emphasizing the importance of environmental factors in reducing health disparities.

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