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Descriptor English: Child Poverty
Descriptor Spanish: Pobreza Infantil
Descriptor pobreza infantil
Scope note: Situación de los niños (de 0 a 17 años inclusive) que viven en hogares con ingresos inferiores al umbral federal de pobreza establecido por el Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos de Estados Unidos, que a menudo conduce a la falta de alimentos, higiene, refugio, atención médica y educación necesarios para sobrevivir y prosperar.
Descriptor Portuguese: Pobreza Infantil
Descriptor French: Pauvreté des enfants
Entry term(s): Childhood Poverties
Childhood Poverty
Poverties, Childhood
Poverty, Child
Poverty, Childhood
Tree number(s): I01.880.735.634.500
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000091486
Scope note: A situation of children (ages 0-17 inclusive) living in households with income below the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Federal Poverty Threshold, often leading to a lack of food, sanitation, shelter, health care and education needed to survive and thrive.
Annotation: for issues concerning health, coordinate with SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
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
Public MeSH Note: 2022
History Note: 2022
DeCS ID: 59883
Unique ID: D000091486
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 2022/01/01
Date of Entry: 2021/07/09
Revision Date: 2021/11/19
Child Poverty - Preferred
Concept UI M000749051
Scope note A situation of children (ages 0-17 inclusive) living in households with income below the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Federal Poverty Threshold, often leading to a lack of food, sanitation, shelter, health care and education needed to survive and thrive.
Preferred term Child Poverty
Entry term(s) Childhood Poverties
Childhood Poverty
Poverties, Childhood
Poverty, Child
Poverty, Childhood



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