Primary care-based interventions to address the financial needs of patients experiencing poverty: a scoping review of the literature

BackgroundIt is broadly accepted that poverty is associated with poor health, and the health impact of poverty has been explored in numerous high-income country settings. There is a large and growing body of evidence of the role that primary care practitioners can play in identifying poverty as a health determinant, and in interventions to address it.Purpose of studyThis study maps the published peer-reviewed and grey literature on primary care …