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Exploring the health-relevant poverty line: a study using the data of 663,000 individuals in Japan

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 of popu...

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Autor principal: Oshio, Takashi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6937975/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31888635
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-019-1118-8