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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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- Absolute Poverty
- Extreme Poverty
- Federal Poverty Level
- Federal Poverty Threshold
- Indigency
- Indigents
- Low Income Population
- Low-Income Population
- Federal Poverty Levels
- Indigent
- Level, Federal Poverty
- Low Income Populations
- Low-Income Populations
- Population, Low Income
- Population, Low-Income
- Poverty Level, Federal
- Poverty Threshold, Federal
- Poverty, Absolute
- Poverty, Extreme
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Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, ethnology, history, legislation & jurisprudence, prevention & control, psychology, statistics & numerical data, trends.
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for issues concerning health, coordinate with SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; specify geographic location if pertinent
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Poverty. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D011203. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D011203
- Poverty. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty
- Poverty. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10294