"Poverty Areas" 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.
City, urban, rural, or suburban areas which are characterized by severe economic deprivation and by accompanying physical and social decay.
| Descriptor ID |
D011204
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| MeSH Number(s) |
I01.880.853.996.535.550 N01.824.600.550
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| Concept/Terms |
Poverty Areas- Poverty Areas
- Area, Poverty
- Areas, Poverty
- Poverty Area
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2019 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Poverty Areas" by people in Profiles.
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Prevalence and factors associated with catastrophic health expenditure among slum and non-slum dwellers undergoing emergency surgery in a metropolitan area of South Western Nigeria. PLoS One. 2021; 16(8):e0255354.
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Overcrowding and health in two impoverished suburbs of Johannesburg, South Africa. BMC Public Health. 2019 Oct 24; 19(1):1358.
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Factors associated with recovery from stunting among under-five children in two Nairobi informal settlements. PLoS One. 2019; 14(4):e0215488.
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Analysing child linear growth trajectories among under-5 children in two Nairobi informal settlements. Public Health Nutr. 2019 08; 22(11):2001-2011.
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Effectiveness of home-based nutritional counselling and support on exclusive breastfeeding in urban poor settings in Nairobi: a cluster randomized controlled trial. Global Health. 2017 Dec 19; 13(1):90.
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Converging epidemics of sexually transmitted infections and bacterial vaginosis in southern African female adolescents at risk of HIV. Int J STD AIDS. 2018 05; 29(6):531-539.
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Initiating a participatory action research process in the Agincourt health and socio-demographic surveillance site. J Glob Health. 2017 Jun; 7(1):010413.
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Factors affecting actualisation of the WHO breastfeeding recommendations in urban poor settings in Kenya. Matern Child Nutr. 2015 Jul; 11(3):314-32.
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Effectiveness of personalised, home-based nutritional counselling on infant feeding practices, morbidity and nutritional outcomes among infants in Nairobi slums: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial. Trials. 2013 Dec 27; 14:445.
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Prevalence and risk factors of depression in childhood and adolescence as seen in four districts of North-Eastern Uganda. BMC Int Health Hum Rights. 2013 Apr 05; 13:19.