Exploring the health-relevant poverty line: a study using the data of 663,000 individuals in Japan
Abstract Background Income poverty is known to be associated with poor health outcomes. However, the poverty line, which is used to calculate the poverty rate, is arbitrarily set without specific reference to health. This study explored the health-relevant poverty line to understand poverty in terms...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-12-01
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| Series: | International Journal for Equity in Health |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-019-1118-8 |