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Medicalizing Inequity: The Risks of Financial Wellness for Workers | Data & Society

Financial wellness is a trend that redefines financial status as a form of health that can be improved by healthier habits, choices, and psychology. The popularity of financial wellness reflects the medicalization of inequity, which conceptualizes disparities in power, capital, and status as individual or community health issues to be addressed by insights and practices appropriated from public health and medicine.

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