"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.
MeSH Number(s)
I01.880.840.535.550
N01.824.600.550
Concept/Terms
Poverty Areas- Poverty Areas
- Area, Poverty
- Areas, Poverty
- Poverty Area
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Poverty Areas".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Poverty Areas".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Poverty Areas" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Poverty Areas" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 1997 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1999 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2000 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2001 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2002 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2003 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 2004 | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| 2005 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 2006 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| 2007 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 2008 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2009 | 1 | 8 | 9 |
| 2010 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2011 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2012 | 7 | 10 | 17 |
| 2013 | 4 | 5 | 9 |
| 2014 | 8 | 5 | 13 |
| 2015 | 3 | 9 | 12 |
| 2016 | 5 | 8 | 13 |
| 2017 | 6 | 6 | 12 |
| 2018 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 2019 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2020 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 2021 | 3 | 10 | 13 |
| 2022 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2023 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
Below are the most recent publications written about "Poverty Areas" by people in Profiles.
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Cardiovascular Risk Factors in the 21st Century in a Semi-Urban Slum in North-Central Nigeria. West Afr J Med. 2023 Aug 28; 40(8):838-849.
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Hypertension in urban slums of southern India: Burden, awareness, health seeking, control and risk factor profile. Indian Heart J. 2023 Jul-Aug; 75(4):258-262.
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Socioeconomic determinants of asthma health. Curr Opin Pediatr. 2023 06 01; 35(3):337-343.
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Neighborhood Poverty and Distance to Pediatric Hospital Care. Acad Pediatr. 2023 08; 23(6):1276-1281.
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Effectiveness of a community-based education and peer support led by women's self-help groups in improving the control of hypertension in urban slums of Kerala, India: a cluster randomised controlled pragmatic trial. BMJ Glob Health. 2022 11; 7(11).
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Experiences of Urban Slum-Dwelling Women With Maternal and Child Health Services During COVID-19 Pandemic: A Multi-City Qualitative Study From India. Int J Public Health. 2022; 67:1604348.
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Mixed-Method Investigations Uncovering Tension, PTSD Symptoms, and Trauma-Related Difficulties Among Indian Women from Slums Reporting Gender-Based Violence. Cult Med Psychiatry. 2023 Mar; 47(1):195-216.
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A pilot study adapting and validating the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire (HTQ) and PTSD checklist-5 (PCL-5) with Indian women from slums reporting gender-based violence. BMC Womens Health. 2022 01 28; 22(1):22.
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Sexual and reproductive health education and its association with ever use of contraception: a cross-sectional study among women in urban slums, Accra. Reprod Health. 2022 Jan 15; 19(1):7.
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"I put a stone on my heart and kept going": An explanatory model of how distress is generated and regulated among Indian women from slums reporting gender-based violence. Transcult Psychiatry. 2022 08; 59(4):522-538.