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Land, 2023 Large infrastructure projects play a crucial role in regional development but can also negatively impact cultivated-land protection. This study focuses on the role of local governments in land-use conflicts and the rebalancing of land-use structures ...
Junbo Gao +5 more
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Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 2005 This glossary addresses the complex nature of poverty and raises some conceptual and measurement issues related to poverty in the public health literature, with a focus on poor countries.
M, Mowafi, M, Khawaja
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Reproductive Health, 2019 Background Expanding contraceptive method choices for sexually active youth is critical to prevent STIs/HIV and unintended pregnancies. However, preferences and decision making around contraception among young adults are not well understood. A new female
Katherine Gambir +3 more
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A New Statistic: The US Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure [PDF]
, 2012 This article examines the dynamic relationship between macroeconomic performance and measures of poverty in the United States. The article is organized as follows.
Jefferson, Philip N.
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Poverty, Deprivation and Consistent Poverty* [PDF]
Economic Record, 2009 Controversy over the setting of poverty lines and its narrow focus on income has undermined the influence of poverty research on policy. The deprivation approach overcomes these limitations by identifying deprivation as an inability to afford items that receive majority support for being essential.
Saunders, Peter, Naidoo, Yuvisthi
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Assessing the Impact of Shallow Renovation on Energy Poverty: A Primary Data Study
Energies, 2023 One of the main identified causes of energy poverty (EP) is the low energy efficiency of housing. In this line, since 2018, public administrations and NGOs collaborating with the Naturgy Foundation’s Energy Renovation Solidarity Fund have implemented ...
Roberto Barrella +3 more
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The Psychiatrization of Poverty: Rethinking the Mental Health-Poverty Nexus [PDF]
, 2015 The positive association between ‘mental illness’ and poverty is one of the most well established in psychiatric epidemiology. Yet, there is little conclusive evidence about the nature of this relationship. Generally, explanations revolve around the idea
Alkire +62 more
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, 2020 This paper discusses the role of social scientific expertise in the emergence of poverty as a problem and a priority for public intervention in the United States during the 1960s. That the social scientific experts defined “the poverty problem” narrowly, as a problem of individuals lacking income or otherwise caught in a “cycle of poverty,” can be ...
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International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2020 Objective: This study aimed to address the prevalence of infectious diseases in a population of unaccompanied immigrant minors living in reception centres of Rome, Italy. Methods: The study was carried out from January 2013 to January 2019.
Rosalia Marrone +5 more
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BMC Public Health, 2019 Background In Italy, the number of individuals who have forgone medical examinations or treatments for economic reasons is one of the highest in Europe.
Alessio Petrelli +4 more
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