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 199 publications over 30 distinct years, with a maximum of 15 publications in 2013

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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	2	4	6
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	3	4
2013	4	11	15
2014	5	6	11
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	2	2	4
2025	2	1	3

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

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 May 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. Testing a Machine Learning-Based Adaptive Motivational System for Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Smokers (Adapt2Quit): Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Res Protoc. 2025 Apr 16; 14:e63693.

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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 Aug; 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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Kim S. Editorial: Placing Parenting in Context: Neighborhood Crime, Early Brain Development, and Socioemotional Outcomes. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2024 Jul; 63(7):678-680.

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Kantz ME, Enah C, Abdallah LM, Koren A. Housing and Health in Older Adults With Low Income in the United States: An Integrative Review. J Gerontol Nurs. 2024 Mar; 50(3):25-32.

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Lund C, Jordans MJD, Garman E, Araya R, Avendano M, Bauer A, Bahure V, Dua T, Eleftheriou G, Evans-Lacko S, Garc?a Rodr?guez JF, Gautam K, Gevonden M, Hessel P, Kohrt BA, Krabbendam L, Luitel NP, Roy S, Seifert Bonifaz M, Singh R, Sinichi M, Sorsdahl K, Thornicroft G, Tol WA, Trujillo D, van der Merwe N, Wahid SS, Yarrow P. Strengthening self-regulation and reducing poverty to prevent adolescent depression and anxiety: Rationale, approach and methods of the ALIVE interdisciplinary research collaboration in Colombia, Nepal and South Africa. Epidemiol Psychiatr Sci. 2023 Dec 13; 32:e69.

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McConnell M, Agarwal S, Hanson E, McCrady E, Parker MG, Bona K. Prescription for Cash? Cash Support to Low-Income Families in Maternal and Pediatric Health Care Settings. Milbank Q. 2024 03; 102(1):64-82.

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Dyer Z, Alcusky MJ, Galea S, Ash A. Measuring The Enduring Imprint Of Structural Racism On American Neighborhoods. Health Aff (Millwood). 2023 10; 42(10):1374-1382.

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