Poverty

"Poverty" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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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.

Descriptor ID	D011203
MeSH Number(s)	I01.880.735.634 I01.880.853.996.535 N01.824.600
Concept/Terms	Poverty Poverty Indigents Indigents Indigent Indigency Indigency Low-Income Population Low-Income Population Low-Income Populations Population, Low-Income Populations, Low-Income Low Income Population Low Income Populations Population, Low Income Populations, Low Income

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Poverty".

Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena [I]
Social Sciences [I01]
Sociology [I01.880]
Social Problems [I01.880.735]
Poverty [I01.880.735.634]
Sociological Factors [I01.880.853]
Socioeconomic Factors [I01.880.853.996]
Poverty [I01.880.853.996.535]
Health Care [N]
Population Characteristics [N01]
Socioeconomic Factors [N01.824]
Poverty [N01.824.600]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Poverty".

publications

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Poverty" by people in this website by year, and whether "Poverty" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

Bar chart showing 206 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 14 publications in 2021

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1996	2	0	2
1997	1	0	1
1998	2	1	3
1999	2	1	3
2000	0	1	1
2001	2	0	2
2002	6	1	7
2003	3	4	7
2004	1	4	5
2005	2	3	5
2006	4	2	6
2007	1	3	4
2008	4	2	6
2009	5	5	10
2010	2	5	7
2011	7	3	10
2012	1	4	5
2013	4	9	13
2014	6	7	13
2015	1	8	9
2016	7	6	13
2017	5	5	10
2018	4	2	6
2019	4	8	12
2020	1	7	8
2021	5	9	14
2022	0	6	6
2023	4	2	6
2024	3	2	5
2025	3	1	4
2026	1	2	3

Below are the most recent publications written about "Poverty" by people in Profiles.

Hager K, Alcusky M, Zhang FF, Sing G, Ash A, Mick E, Terranova J, DiBacco E, Buckler S, Rich A, Bowman J, Folta S, Prendergast K, Frank J, Ball C, Chiang JS, Mozaffarian D. Medically tailored meals receipt and healthcare utilization and costs in Massachusetts' Medicaid demonstration. Nat Med. 2026 Jun; 32(6):2147-2154.

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Guyol GG, Arenson M, Baumann K, Ruiz S, Mendelsohn AL, Litt JS, Colvin BN, Parker MG. "I Need to Pay Attention to Everything": Perspectives of Low-income Parents of Preterm Children on Early Relational Health. J Dev Behav Pediatr. 2026 May-Jun 01; 47(3):e348-e356.

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Guyol GG, Cook KD, Lombardi C, Parker MG, Litt JS. Early Relational Health Among Children Born Preterm and With Functional Impairments Enrolled in Early Head Start. Acad Pediatr. 2026 May-Jun; 26(4):103246.

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McConnell M, Alsager A, Fuchu P, Sriprasad S, Simoncini L, Drainoni ML, Cordova-Ramos EG, Pe?a MM, Madore L, Kalluri NS, Silverstein M, Schofield H, Farah MJ, Fink G, Parker MG. CuddleCard: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial evaluating the effect of providing financial support to low-income mothers of preterm infants on parental caregiving in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). BMC Pediatr. 2025 05 15; 25(1):383.

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Garg A, Brochier A, Tripodis Y, BarahonaPaz K, Drainoni ML. Potential Pediatric Health Care Consequences of Not Getting Help for Disclosed Social Needs. Acad Pediatr. 2025 08; 25(6):102834.

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Kamberi A, Weitz B, Flahive J, Eve J, Najjar R, Liaghat T, Ford D, Lindenauer P, Person S, Houston TK, Gauvey-Kern ME, Lobien J, Sadasivam RS, Balakrishnan K. Testing a Machine Learning-Based Adaptive Motivational System for Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Smokers (Adapt2Quit): Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Res Protoc. 2025 04 16; 14:e63693.

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Khan UI, Shah S, Qureshi A, Viswanathan S, Merchant AT, Virani SS, Wylie-Rosett J, Noornabi Y. Burden of cardiometabolic diseases and depression in a low-income, urban community in Pakistan: a cross-sectional survey. BMC Public Health. 2025 Feb 24; 25(1):757.

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Hall YN, Bensken WP, Morrissey SE, De La Cruz Alcantara I, Unruh ML, Prince DK. Community Health Center Penetration and Kidney Care Outcomes among Low-Income, Nonelderly Adults with Kidney Failure. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2025 Feb 01; 20(2):169-177.

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Armstrong E, Rogers K, Li CS, Jagnoor J, Moroz P, Oguzie GC, Hailu S, Miclau T, de la Huerta F, Martinez-Ruiz JJ, Bidolegui F, Zhou J, Ma X, Wu B, Sancheti P, Quang N, Baigi V, Haddadi M, Tian M, Sprague S, Devereaux PJ, Bhandari M, Ivers R. Time from injury to hip-fracture surgery in low-income and middle-income regions: a secondary analysis of data from the International Orthopaedic Multicentre Study in Fracture Care (INORMUS). Lancet Healthy Longev. 2024 08; 5(8):e552-e562.

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Eche-Ugwu IJ, Orellana L, Becker D, Bona K, Avery M, Feudtner C, Freedman JL, Kang TI, Rosenberg AR, Waldman ED, Ullrich CK, Dussel V, Wolfe J. Household material hardship and distress among parents of children with advanced cancer: A report from the PediQUEST Response trial. Cancer. 2024 Oct 15; 130(20):3540-3548.

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