Descriptor English: | Poverty | ||||||
Descriptor Spanish: |
Pobreza
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Descriptor Portuguese: | Pobreza | ||||||
Descriptor French: | Pauvreté | ||||||
Entry term(s): |
Absolute Poverty Extreme Poverty Federal Poverty Level Federal Poverty Threshold Immiseration Impoverishment Indigency Indigent Indigents Low Income Population Low Income Populations Low-Income Population Low-Income Populations Population, Low Income Population, Low-Income Populations, Low Income Populations, Low-Income Poverty, Absolute Poverty, Extreme |
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Tree number(s): |
I01.880.735.634 I01.880.853.996.535 N01.824.600 SP3.311.900.898.688 |
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RDF Unique Identifier: | https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D011203 | ||||||
Scope note: | A situation in which the level of living of an individual, family, or group is below the standard of the community. It is often related to a specific income level. |
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Annotation: | for issues concerning health, coordinate with SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; specify geographic location if pertinent |
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Allowable Qualifiers: |
CL classification EC economics EH ethnology ES ethics HI history LJ legislation & jurisprudence PC prevention & control PX psychology SN statistics & numerical data TD trends |
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Public MeSH Note: | 68 |
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History Note: | 68 |
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Related: |
Cultural Deprivation
MeSH | ||||||
DeCS ID: | 11641 | ||||||
Unique ID: | D011203 | ||||||
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): | Click here to access the VHL documents | ||||||
Date Established: | 1968/01/01 | ||||||
Date of Entry: | 1999/01/01 | ||||||
Revision Date: | 2019/03/04 |
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ANTHROPOLOGY, EDUCATION, SOCIOLOGY, AND SOCIAL PHENOMENA
Social Sciences [I01]Social Sciences -
ANTHROPOLOGY, EDUCATION, SOCIOLOGY, AND SOCIAL PHENOMENA
Social Sciences [I01]Social Sciences
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Poverty
- Preferred
Indigents
- Related but not broader or narrower
Indigency
- Related but not broader or narrower
Low-Income Population
- Related but not broader or narrower
Impoverishment
- Related but not broader or narrower
Extreme Poverty
- Narrower
Federal Poverty Threshold
- Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI |
M0017394 |
Scope note | A situation in which the level of living of an individual, family, or group is below the standard of the community. It is often related to a specific income level. |
Preferred term | Poverty |
Concept UI |
M0017392 |
Preferred term | Indigents |
Entry term(s) |
Indigent |
Concept UI |
M0017395 |
Preferred term | Indigency |
Concept UI |
M0017393 |
Preferred term | Low-Income Population |
Entry term(s) |
Low Income Population Low Income Populations Low-Income Populations Population, Low Income Population, Low-Income Populations, Low Income Populations, Low-Income |
Concept UI |
FD00062314 |
Scope note | Impoverishment: The action of impoverishing someone. The state of being impoverished. (Wiktionary) immiseration: The process of making miserable, especially of a population as a whole; impoverishment. (Wiktionary) |
Preferred term | Impoverishment |
Entry term(s) |
Immiseration |
Concept UI |
M000645158 |
Scope note | The inability to meet basic human needs, such as food, shelter, and avoidance of disease. |
Preferred term | Extreme Poverty |
Entry term(s) |
Absolute Poverty Poverty, Absolute Poverty, Extreme |
Concept UI |
M000748826 |
Scope note | Poverty thresholds are updated each year by the Census Bureau and used for calculating all official poverty population statistics. Poverty guidelines are issued each year by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The guidelines are a simplification of the poverty thresholds for use for administrative purposes - for instance, determining financial eligibility for certain federal programs(https://aspe.hhs.gov/2021-poverty-guidelines). |
Preferred term | Federal Poverty Threshold |
Entry term(s) |
Federal Poverty Level |
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