HSS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: United States Dollar, Market Basket, Absolute Threshold
5 May 2017
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Lecture 8. 1: determinants of health (simple measure of low income and poverty) Some kind of combination of one, two or three of: Limited access to health services (even in socialized medicine?) Food desert: an urban area in which it is difficult to buy affordable or good-quality fresh food. Food desert (no car and no supermarket store within a mile. A standard definitions of a poverty line is the minimum level income deemed necessary to achieve an adequate standard of living. But what is an adequate standard of living. Relative poverty: below a threshold computed from within the population of interest. Absolute poverty: defined in terms of the minimal requirements necessary to afford a basic standard of living. Example: households with an accumulated income less than a percentage of the median income (usually 50% or 60%) are living in poverty. By definition, regardless of overall wealth of the society there will always be someone living in poverty.
