Coursebooks

In Diagnosis: Poverty, Marcella Wilson delivers a bold and compassionate call to action—urging us to view poverty not as a personal failure but as an environmentally based medical condition. Drawing from her decades of experience in healthcare and human services, Wilson weaves personal narrative, powerful stories from the front lines, and rigorous research into a transformative model of care: Transition To Success®.

Through eye-opening accounts—including her undercover “secret shopper” journey posing as a single mother in Detroit—Wilson exposes the broken systems that fail America’s most vulnerable. With insight, heart, and urgency, she challenges the entrenched “character flaw” mentality and offers a scalable, data-informed strategy that treats poverty like the epidemic it truly is.

This groundbreaking book is a must-read for healthcare professionals, policymakers, educators, and anyone committed to equity and justice.