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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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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 Intertwined Relationship Between Malnutrition and Poverty
Frontiers in Public Health, 2020 Despite social and economic development, the burden of malnutrition across the globe remains unacceptably high. A vital relationship exists between nutritional status, human capital, and economic standing. Malnutrition adversely affects the physiological
Faareha A Siddiqui +3 more
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Child poverty and changes in child poverty [PDF]
Demography, 2008 Abstract This article offers a cross-country overview of child poverty, changes in child poverty, and the impact of public policy in North America and Europe. Levels and changes in child poverty rates in 12 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries during the 1990s are documented using data from the ...
Wen-Hao, Chen, Miles, Corak
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Digitalization of the EU Economies and People at Risk of Poverty or Social Exclusion
Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 2020 Despite the fact that a comprehensive analysis of digitalization processes in the EU member states has been carried out, the impact of a country’s digitalization level on the risks of poverty and social exclusion requires further investigation.
A. Kwiliński +2 more
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SSM: Population Health, 2019 Background: Despite strong theoretical grounding, important gaps in knowledge remain regarding the degree to which there is a causal relationship between education and sexual and reproductive health, as many claims have been made based on associations ...
Stephanie R. Psaki +4 more
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The poverty of the concept of ‘poverty eradication’
South African Medical Journal, 2015 It is clear that the World Bank definition of poverty is outdated and requires revision. A brief review of how poverty and income levels are defined is offered to provide insight into the shortcomings of such definitions and into what ‘eradicating poverty in all its forms’ would mean if considered within more realistic boundaries.
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Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 2020 Background Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) have long been overlooked in the global health agenda. They are intimately related to poverty, cause important local burdens of disease, but individually do not represent global priorities.
D. Engels, Xiaonong Zhou
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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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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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