Social Exclusion and Material Disadvantage: Housing, Poverty, and Living Standards Impacts

10 Poverty, social exclusion, and minorities

Poverty, the extent of relative deprivation, and the processes of social exclusion in a society have a major impact on the health of its population. All over Europe, in richer countries as well as poorer ones, those people who are worse off in socio-economic terms have worse health outcomes and higher death rates than those who are better off. Particular ‘minority’ ethnic groups are often in po...

Poverty, social exclusion and health in Portugal.

People in Portugal have never been so healthy. Nevertheless, there are great differences in health status between social groups and regions. In 1994, Portugal was the country with the second worst level of inequality in terms of income distribution and with the highest level of poverty in the European Union (EU). Poverty in Portugal affects mainly the elderly and women (especially in single par...

European Measures of Poverty and “Social Exclusion”: Material Deprivation, Consumption, and Life Satisfaction

The conventional view of poverty in the European Union countries is based on a relative measure, which defines all those with incomes below 60 percent of the median as poor. In the U.S., poverty is defined according to an absolute measure—the federal poverty line computed by the Census Bureau—which was $21,200 for a family of four in 2008 (somewhat higher in Alaska and Hawaii). In tallying up n...

Poverty and social exclusion in urban and rural areas of Scotland Poverty and Social Exclusion UK Survey 2012 Working Paper

Poverty, social disadvantage, and the black/white placement gap