Poverty
Open Access
- 1 April 2005
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
- Vol. 59 (4), 260-264
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.2004.022822
Abstract
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.Keywords
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