DeCS

Descriptor English:

Poverty

Descriptor Spanish:

Pobreza

Spanish from Spain

Descriptor	pobreza
Entry term(s)	desvalimiento empobrecimiento indigencia indigente indigentes nivel federal de pobreza población con pocos ingresos población de renta baja población de salarios bajos pobreza absoluta pobreza extrema pobreza humana pobreza relativa umbral federal de pobreza
Scope note:	Situación en la que el nivel de vida de un individuo, familia o grupo es inferior al nivel estándar de la comunidad. Con frecuencia se asocia a un determinado nivel de renta.

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

Tree number(s):

I01.880.735.634
I01.880.853.996.535
N01.824.600
SP3.311.900.898.688

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.

Annotation:

for issues concerning health, coordinate with SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; specify geographic location if pertinent

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

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	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

We want your feedback on the new DeCS / MeSH website

We invite you to complete a survey that will take no more than 3 minutes.