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. 2005 Apr;59(4):260–264. doi: 10.1136/jech.2004.022822

Poverty

M Mowafi 1, M Khawaja 1
PMCID: PMC1410827  EMSID: UKMS9057  PMID: 15767376

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.

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