HealthSmart: The Poverty Effect
Approximately 43 million people are living in poverty in the United States. That’s 43 million people who may not know where their next meal is coming from, how they’ll pay their rent or if they’ll be able to see a doctor in the near future.
When you think of good health, good nutrition and exercise may come to mind. While eating right and exercising can be challenging for many of us, for people living in poverty it can be almost impossible. On HealthSmart: The Poverty Effect we’ll discuss the link between poverty and poor health and what’s being done to break the cycle.
Keira McGuire is a health reporter and multimedia producer for WITF. She hosts and produces Transforming Health television programs as well as other shows and documentaries for WITF’s Original Productions. McGuire produced the Emmy Award winning series HealthSmart for the last ten years. Keira previously worked at WBFF in Baltimore and WMDT in Salisbury as a reporter and anchor. She’s a graduate of Towson University.
