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It is important to note that the rich or privileged people are also ill-informed to the same extent as the poor. The difference is just that the rich are surrounded by invisible nudges - private doctors who give better advice, clean water, immunization and vaccination by schools or local community camps. We don't have to make a choice.
The first step is to understand poverty is to understand how the poor think.

4. Similarly for healthcare, even when it's affordable the poor are ill-informed or trapped in false beliefs.
There are a number of problems which can be solved pretty easily and without much expense - iodine and iron in food, chlorinated water to prevent diarrhoea, vaccination and immunization, etc. But these low hanging fruits don't reach the people due to lack of information and proper incentives and nudges.