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  2. Multidimensional Poverty Index - Wikipedia

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    Multidimensional Poverty Indices uses a range of indicators to calculate a summary poverty figure for a given population, in which a larger figure indicates a higher level of poverty. This figure considers both the proportion of the population that is deemed poor and the 'breadth' of poverty experienced by these 'poor' households, following the ...

  3. Social determinants of health in poverty - Wikipedia

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    The social determinants of health in poverty describe the factors that affect impoverished populations' health and health inequality. Inequalities in health stem from the conditions of people's lives, including living conditions , work environment, age , and other social factors, and how these affect people's ability to respond to illness . [ 1 ]

  4. Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative - Wikipedia

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    Multidimensional poverty encompasses a range of deprivations that a household may suffer. The number of indicators and specific indicators used depend on the purpose of the measure. Common purposes include national poverty measures that reflect changes over time, targeting of services or conditional cash transfers and monitoring and evaluation.

  5. Quality of life - Wikipedia

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    Organisations such as the World Bank, for example, declare a goal of "working for a world free of poverty", [32] with poverty defined as a lack of basic human needs, such as food, water, shelter, freedom, access to education, healthcare, or employment. [33] In other words, poverty is defined as a low quality of life.

  6. Social determinants of health - Wikipedia

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    The 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) established by the Obama administration in the United States, embodied the ideas put in place by the WHO by bridging the gap between community-based health and healthcare as a medical treatment, meaning that a larger consideration of social determinants of health was emerging in the policy. [129]

  7. Poverty - Wikipedia

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    The definition of relative poverty varies from one country to another, or from one society to another. [2] Statistically, as of 2019, most of the world's population live in poverty: in PPP dollars, 85% of people live on less than $30 per day, two-thirds live on less than $10 per day, and 10% live on less than $1.90 per day. [3]

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  9. Diseases of poverty - Wikipedia

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    Conversely, chronic conditions such as obesity can also increase rates of poverty via increased healthcare expenditures, wage loss during peak productive years, and missed schooling. [108] These points underscore the positive effect poverty alleviation has on improving health outcomes as it concerns obesity and other chronic NCDs.